Urban badgers

[Wowbagger]

We have lots of badgers in Southend and I see them occasionally. I have noticed an expansion of the setts just a couple of hundred yards from our house recently. Visitors from Somerset & Gloucestershire?  This morning there were lots of prints in the steep-sloping clay path, which clearly they are struggling to climb in this wet weather.

Do any other town-dwelling forumites know of badger populations in their metropolises?

[graculus]

We see badgers crossing the road late at night occasionally (SW Wolverhampton) and mrs graculus saw one recently trotting towards the castle grounds in Bridgnorth, but have not noticed any setts.

[SteveC]

I've seen them in Yeovil (a good half mile inside the urban area) and one of my colleagues feeds them in her back garden, also well within the town limits.

[Gaston Lagaffe]

Apparently Monsieur Clarkson has problems with them undermining his foundations

https://twitter.com/JeremyClarkson/status/386915049362579456

[pcolbeck]

Yup you wouldn't want them close to a building they are very enthusiastic tunnellers. Lovely animals though. See them quite a lot around here (not urban ones though as "here" is rural North Yorkshire).

[Wowbagger]

Apparently Monsieur Clarkson has problems with them undermining his foundations

https://twitter.com/JeremyClarkson/status/386915049362579456

You could hardly call Chipping Norton "urban" though.

I'm talking about slap bang in the middle of a town with a human population of 200000.

Here

[pcolbeck]

I bet they scare the f**k out of the urban foxes. Badgers are hard as nails.

[Wowbagger]

The foxes and badgers seem to live in relative harmony. There are loads of foxes round here as well, but the difference is that you see them lots more frequently.

[pcolbeck]

Never see them together round here. Mind you teh foxes are scared of people but the badgers aren't.

[clarion]

Have they brought goalposts with them, or are they just going to use jumpers?

[Oscar's dad]

Huggy had a badger bounce off his front wheel as he ascended The Mighty North Hill a couple of weeks ago.  Admittedly Little Baddow is not particularly urban.  The animal crossed in front of him and then doubled back hitting Huggy's bike.  I was behind and saw him nearly fall off as he tried to unclip.  Apparently the badger growled at him