This badger followed a regular route, and usually turned up an hour or so after dark. This predictability allowed me to deploy a camera with a tilt/shift lens, positioned, pre-focused and tilted to cover the badger’s head in the plane of focus, as it moved with its nose close to the ground. Badgers have very poor eyesight, but fairly good hearing and an excellent sense of smell. They are usually indifferent to a camera flash but can be easily alarmed by the sound of a camera shutter, so I muffled the camera with a winter coat. I was positioned several metres downwind and triggered the camera with a radio transmitter.