15/04/2023 Hoo Zoo, Telford

Badger: Gary from work guested we visit Hoo Farm which is a small zoo located in Telford. They do have some captive birds and animals on site in eluding wolves, caracal's, clawed otters, racoon dogs swell as an array of giant anomatromic dinosaurs. 

And amongst the captive exotic animals and plastics dinos's they have a brilliant photograph hide where you can photograph wild badgers from located within the zoo. There is a badger sett within the zoo where a group of badgers reside forming an underground network. Every Saturday the zoo organises a badger watch from within the hide from 5pm to 8pm. 

There is also other wildlife to be seen as well like foxes however on both occasions, the foxes did not appear. The first visit was good as I got some good sightings of the badger and was the first time I had ever seen a badger

There is also other wildlife to be seen here as they have had foxes occasionally take advantage of the free food put out to entice the badgers. However on this occasions, the foxes did not appear. I loved this, the hide was well presented with both glass viewing area and open windows which give good coverage of the sett. 

The young lad leading from the zoo who was leading the guided tour was excellent, friendly and knowledgeable and the badgers were simply suburb. 

We had three badgers in total, including this big female who was the start of the show. It was obvious that she was brooding a little of young in the sett somewhere and was clever enough to come out first and feed for the longest. She came out around 18.45 and the others came out around 20.10. 

I'll be coming back. Thanks for organising this Gary lad, big thanks.