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Bother that badger!

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  • Savvy_Sue
    Savvy_Sue Posts: 47,362 Forumite
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    Frugaldom said:
    We have turned part of our garden over to the wildlife as they've been here far longer than we or the houses have. Lights don't deter them in the least, even the motion activated one or flash photography. Now, the vegetables are fenced in and the deer, foxes, badgers, pine martens, magpies, pheasants, ducks and any number of other visitors make for a great online photo album when captured on trail cameras. 'Our' badgers are bringing cubs with them now. We do leave out peanuts for everything so they go to those specific areas most times. Enjoy your wildlife as it's fast disappearing in many places. :smiley:

    Added in - decent little trail cameras available on A****n from around £25 including SD card and p&p. 

    It's a valid point of view, and there are bits of the garden which are pretty well ignored. I'm sure we have fox visitors as well as badgers, and enough magpies, pigeons and seagulls to keep anyone happy. Oh, and the boys reckoned we had a deer in the garden one day, and I know they're local. 

    BTW, I said 
    Savvy_Sue said:

    b) We've bought some cheap solar lights. IF they get enough sun to power them, they might put badger off a bit (and even if they don't, it will make emptying the indoor compost bin easier in the winter). And I'll try to get the motion-sensitive light on the garage working again. 
    The box says very little. The instructions say that they are not intended for use in rain, wind, or winter. And they need 6 hours of direct sunlight to charge them every day.  :D  So I'm guessing they will be about as much use a chocolate teapot, even for DH finding his way to the compost bin in the dark ... 



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  • sheramber
    sheramber Posts: 22,724 Forumite
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    I have solar lights in my garden tfor my dog going out at night, but they are not reliable in the winter.

    Sometimes bright  daylight is enough to charge them but they don't stay on for as long as they do in the summer.

    I have one attached to my fence at the back door and one  attached further down the fence towards the bottom of the garden. one is in the front of  the shed.

    They are pointing towards the direction the sun comes over the garden.

    i got them on Amazon. 


  • twopenny
    twopenny Posts: 7,669 Forumite
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    Won't lights just guide them to the compost bin?
    Like an airport runway.

    Would a cat-off light and subsonic alarm do it? Lidl do them sometimes.
    I got rid of mine because the defacating cats got used to them and I didn't want my hedgehogs to be scared.
    Hedgies don't mind my solar uplighters, £2 each by Kingavon. They work all year even with little light. Some lasted years, some only one 

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  • Mee
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    My sympathies. I remember my first year on my allotment badgers wrecked my broad bean patch and I burst into tears. Experienced plotholders recommended: Chicken wire of sorts as they don't like getting their snouts stuck in mesh/wire (who does?) and it worked for me.
    Male urine
    Fencing with 30 cm depth as per earlier post.
    Oh, and apparently used lion straw/hay bedding (from your local wildlife park/zoo) works with cat marauding.
    Free thinker.:cool:
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