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I have been involved with badgers for the past 26 years. During my first years of watching them I would often sit for hours on end outside a sett and see nothing at all. However on the lucky occasions I did see them it produced a very warm and excited feeling inside. I new I had succeeded in making them unaware of my presence and gained access to their secretive world. Over the years my experience grew and I got to know the badgers I watched very well.
One of my ambitions since starting to watch badgers was to film them and make a video that showed them behaving naturally. To achieve this I set up a wedding video business to pay for my equipment and then moved to Herefordshire to find a suitable sett. I was very fortunate and found a sett just the other side of the field where I lived. I also had a power point 200 meters from the sett and I was able to rig up a lighting system around it. It took a year to get the badgers used to the lights and to me being at the sett. The result was a level of trust that allowed me to feed the cubs from my hand, rub heads with my favourite cub and film all the badgers under full lighting. My wife will vouch for the fact that this was achieved through many hours of patiently waiting at the sett.
The result was a video entitled "An Insight into Badger Behaviour" that has been described as "just like watching a badger sett from the armchair in your living-room." Click on the BBC's Simon King letter for his comments on the video." An off-shoot of this video was a shortened version that won me the BBC's Wildlife Video Film Maker of the Year Award.
News about my achievements spread as far afield as Japan. A film crew from the very popular Amazing Animals show came over and spent a week filming at my sett. I was delighted that they managed to get some good footage.
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