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What do badgers fatten up on in autumn?

mäger kõikesööja
Posted by the Animal of the Year team 10.08.2016 

Just now mainly fruits rich in carbohydrate are on the badger’s menu: raspberries, lingonberries, blueberries. In abandoned farm yards currants and apples too.
Photo: Tarmo Mikussaar
 

The middle of summer has passed. The closer to autumn, the more fruits are ripe, or ripening, in nature. It is a good time for a badger to start preparing for winter. Among important tasks the duty to fatten up one’s body has moved into the foreground.

About moths - Sallows have started flying

Text and photos  Aare Lindt, www.loodusmuuseum.ee
Translation Liis

Angle-striped sallow

 

Angle-striped sallow    Külmaöölane    Enargia paleacea

 

The angle-striped sallow is present in the whole of Estonia and is fairly common. The moths can be seen in broadleaf and mixed forests, thickets, gardens and other similar environments.

The sallow enjoys artificial light at night but looks for a sheltered place when the day begins.

About setts in the badger sett survey

paunküla linnak

Photo puzzle. Where is the sett? Because it is tricky to catch several burrow openings at the same time in one photo,  the sett in Paunküla is first of all betrayed in the photo by the heavily scraped area – much sand has been transported out, and in the right-hand upper corner a broad furrow is visible where the badger carries sand and withered grass out from or into the sett. A marked furrow can also be sensed to the left of the trio of trees in the centre. The burrows themselves however are nearly not visible in the photo because the openings are actually quite small, with diameters of only up to 25 centimetres and are also spaced far enough from each other not to show clearly in one photo.

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