Beautiful badger

This is rather a grainy picture, but a very special one for me, for it was the first time I had ever come into such close proximity to a beautiful badger!  This was on a holiday in Devon (location secret!), and an experience that I will never forget.  It was magical and exciting.  I hope one day to be able to see some more badgers, but I was very lucky and saw these badgers every day for a week and they were out and about in the daytime too playing.  One evening I sat up a plum tree in the rain to try and get some nice photos, but unfortunately I didn't have a good camera back then.  Still, I will always remember the moment.  I love animals and badgers are probably my all time favourite (oh and owls too!!)