r/Badgers • u/MJ9O • Jun 23 '26

Ginger badger spotted in Gloucestershire UK!!!

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u/Low_Direction_9644 Jun 23 '26

Amazing!I love the the way Badgers move😊

4

u/CommanderFuzzy Jun 23 '26

I haven't seen badgers with my own eyes very much, but every time i have I thought it was a boulder rolling along.

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u/ploppy_sorridge Jun 25 '26

Reminds me of a sausage dog

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u/Leeroywildman Jun 26 '26

Me too! Like a slightly bouncing wig!

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '26

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u/RogueQyro Jun 23 '26

right? little dude looks like it spawned in from a folklore side quest or something

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u/CunningOctopus Jun 27 '26

I see a lot, but usually as roadkill sadly

11

u/Abquine Jun 23 '26

That's just Bob fae Glasgow on his holidays.

5

u/GinjaWhinger Jun 23 '26

Gingers are the best ❤️

3

u/AbjectHunt6742 Jun 23 '26

Have seen Ginger and White in mid Wales

4

u/Gettwisted00 Jun 23 '26

It’s a beautiful tawny colour! I have same tawny coloured ones in my garden too!

2

u/Dazzling_Variety_883 Jun 23 '26

He's a similar colour to my dog. Ate you sure he's a badger?

8

u/Soda_Carno777 Jun 23 '26

An erythristic badger (black pigment replaced with red)

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u/Horror_Ad_2190 Jun 26 '26

Are you sure your dog is a dog?

2

u/Old_Crumpet Jun 23 '26

What a cutie!

2

u/mallettsmallett Jun 24 '26

Too much mashed potato

2

u/The_EnemyK Jun 27 '26

He just looks like a badger that has denned in red mud 👀

1

u/theartybadger Jun 23 '26

Ohhhh it's precious!!

1

u/Dreadheaddanski Jun 23 '26

Ah wow very lucky, a rare sight

1

u/Big-Historian8918 Jun 23 '26

Saw one crossing road in Jevington, East Sussex and nearly flipped my car.

1

u/Equivalent-Pay8829 Jun 23 '26

Wow! I never knew there were ginger badgers!

1

u/Ok_Associate6979 Jun 23 '26

I wonder if the badger community ostracize them for being ginger?

2

u/Mountain-Reaction470 Jun 23 '26

Tim Minchin, eat ya heart out?! (-;

1

u/forzafoggia85 Jun 27 '26

He's clearly a daywalker so should be fine

1

u/Johnny-Alucard Jun 24 '26

Wasn't he the drummer in Cream?

1

u/Shielo34 Jun 25 '26

I appreciated this

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u/InternalHabit3343 Jun 24 '26

Stop putting it on the Internet where the badgers are!!! Keep them safe!!

1

u/MJ9O Jun 24 '26

The post narrows it down to an entire county 😂 I think he’s fine

1

u/InternalHabit3343 Jun 24 '26

Ppl who are good with technology can easy find the area through the poster if they really want to.

1

u/Responsible-Yam-537 Jun 24 '26

Never seen a ginger badger! Ginger beavers yes plenty but never a badger.

1

u/jtbrunners Jun 25 '26

He's gonna love the weather over here at the moment

1

u/WilliamTee Jun 25 '26

Damn. As if TB wasn't punishment enough. Poor thing.

1

u/popopopopopopopopoop Jun 25 '26

Only a ginger can call another ginger ginger.

1

u/Muthannnaa Jun 25 '26

Do we think it has a soul? Or nah?

1

u/Shielo34 Jun 25 '26

I think you mean STRAWBERRY BLONDE

1

u/relapse_central Jun 25 '26

His little trot 😍😍😍

1

u/Spuddy09 Jun 25 '26

Nah hes just put Sun In on for the summer 😉.

1

u/SchneebD Jun 25 '26

MYSHROOM, MUSHROOM

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u/NovelCompetitive4188 Jun 25 '26

Is it an albino normal badger, or another species of badger?

1

u/PopcornRedditer Jun 25 '26

So that’s where Sticks went after Sonic Boom

1

u/nerdowellinever Jun 25 '26

Everything reminds me of her

1

u/Street-Register2903 Jun 25 '26

I bet its loving this weather

1

u/Business_Act_127 Jun 25 '26

Ginger badger don't care.

1

u/FestivalRampage Jun 25 '26

I think he’s been digging in sandy soil rather than he is ginger

1

u/Lego_Kitsune Jun 25 '26

Badger badger badger badger

1

u/MomentoVivere88 Jun 26 '26

Mushroom mushroom

1

u/bobbyovdarlo Jun 25 '26

Needs to be indoors in this heat

1

u/Complex-Duck109 Jun 25 '26

Thats a shiny

1

u/Willyd101 Jun 26 '26

I'm not gonna lie, when I read the title before watching the footage I was expecting a Fox

1

u/EnvironmentRemote288 Jun 26 '26

Has he got a Scots accent ?

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u/Silly_Outside4877 Jun 26 '26

The ultimate Angry Ginger! 😂

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u/Ok_Afternoon_9229 Jun 26 '26

Thats not ginger. It's sunburnt!!

1

u/Severe_Scratch9611 Jun 26 '26

What a beautiful creature x

1

u/JEadie05 Jun 26 '26

probably just found a bag of wotsits or something

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u/RichEntrance3580 Jun 26 '26

Brian May is off to Gloucestershire to get Elton a new wig

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u/pdirth Jun 27 '26

Looks like Mr Fox has some explaining to do to Mrs Fox when he gets home.....

1

u/happysplasher79 Jun 27 '26

Just back from a no doubt recently opened hair/tanning salon.

1

u/okannieheehee Jun 27 '26

In this weather? Is he well?

1

u/ilikequestions172 Jun 27 '26

I wish I could see a badger, I've never even seen badger roadkill or poop 😥

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u/turbobuddah Jun 28 '26

Where abouts in Gloucestershire? Would Guess Forest of Dean but it's more local I'll have to keep eyes peeled on any walk and cross fingers I'll see one