Bloody mystery!

You know, presumably, because I have told you, that when I run through the fields I can stop and look back because I have registered a badger footprint?

Well, that didn't happen when I saw them in my garden. My mind completely denied the possibility until I looked at these pictures 36 hours later. I shared them in the badger Whats App group and received a definitive YES, badger.

Yes, blood. They asked if I had tracked the badger and I had to admit that no, I hadn't even acknowledged that it was badger. And besides, I didn't mention this, i was heading off to London.

I am assuming that this is a lot of blood from perhaps just one cut foot. I am hoping that is the case. There is no badger corpse in my garden.

The day before I had wondered why the fox, as I thought, had done this to the platter on which I place food.

Now I think it may have been the badger. But that was 24 hours earlier and I had moved the shards. It could not have caused the cut.

And I recalled that fox fur I found a while back - maybe it was the result of a fox and badger scrap?

I put out the trail camera but it recorded nothing. I think that was because the batteries needed changing. I will try again.