Country diary: I can hear the badgers, I can smell the badgers – but where are they?

I’ve been ready for a superb time to go badger watching at an previous, previous sett I’ve identified for 20 years. I’m hoping for a primary sight of this 12 months’s cubs, which start to emerge round now. A night after rain is finest, earlier than the nettles get too excessive. In damp floor, the worms is perhaps up and badgers like to forage these, however we haven’t had vital rain in weeks. Tonight should do.