The gang were visiting regularly often arriving together. I saw a few scuffles and Patch pushing some others out the way, plus quite often I heard them squabbling or crashing through my plants! One night sitting in the lounge I glanced out and saw Blondie and three dark badgers, but one seemed very timid and was hiding. The shy badger could only be Truffle, as Patch and April were very distinctive and easily identifiable. As I watched it sitting a little distance away, Truffle then suddenly popped out the bushes nearby and now it seemed that I had two very similar badgers out there, how to tell them apart? I called the new badger Humbug, and when I studied the photos I could see it had a narrower white head stripe than Truffle, quite flat ears (Truffle's are rounded and fluffy), but they were the same general colour and size. Throughout June I had to keep doing a double take, was it Truffle or Humbug? They were so similar I wondered if they could have been siblings and this year's cubs, could Patch be mum?

With daylight hours getting longer the badgers were generally arriving around 10pm and staying for 20 minutes. Sometimes alone, other times in a group, quite regularly I saw them grooming each other and lazing around on the grass just chilling out. It was very cool to look out and occasionally see five badgers out there together, incredible to think only a couple of months ago I had never even seen a badger in person and now I had a whole family visiting most nights.