Absence makes the heart grow fonder?

We were unable to feed the badgers for a couple of days and feared they had deserted us when, on Sunday evening, they did not make an appearance before nightfall. They may have come after dark or a wandering cat had the bonanza of stumbling across the badger box of dog food. Out faith was restored when Smudge and Greedy (as named by the niece and nephew) arrived just after 20:00. Greedy was particularly partial to the leftover rice-crispies and milk whilst Smudge made short work of the scattered peanuts. It did not take them long to polish off the remaining dog food before they were gone into the night again. It will be interesting to see if they move much earlier as the nights draw in or whether there is a threshold time at which they stop coming out. The knowledge suggests that come November we will see them less as they tend to spend more time in the sett and less time out foraging but if they know they're onto a good thing maybe they'll still come to visit.