Is this a badger kill? (Easter bunny)

[Ratreeper 441]

I was mooching around a small woods dicking about with my new slingshot and stumbled across this. I thought it was a bit odd and I assume it was a badger, which is interesting because the sett seemed abandoned until recently but now shows signs of activity. Am I right, or any better guesses?

 

[paulus 26]

thats a badger alright they crown the nests and dig straight down to them

[GrCh 856]

cant see nowt lad.

[Ratreeper 441]

thats a badger alright they crown the nests and dig straight down to them

 

I thought so, but it is weird because it wasn't there when I walked past the first time and it was fresh and warm, so it must have killed it in broad daylight with me only a few hundred yards away. I will have to go down with a lamp and see if I can spot them, because although the setts look like they have been cleared out I am still not convinced they are living in them.

 

(I am not going to disturb them before someone kicks off)

[Ratreeper 441]

cant see nowt lad.

 

I don't know why, try this http://tinypic.com/r/s5eo1d/5

[GrCh 856]

i've seen it mate, yeah i'd say pig kill.

[j1985 1,984]

Iv found two of these in the last few weeks, thought it was fox myself!!

[OldTrapCollector 377]

It's a buzzard kill - the fluff has been plucked off it by the bird

 

OTC

[LIKKIY LIKKIY LA LA 9]

Was it in or near an almost perfect square hole?

if it was its already been answered.

It was on an old david attenborough film.

[gnipper 6,503]

It's a buzzard kill - the fluff has been plucked off it by the bird

 

OTC

 

Thats what i'd have said too.

[Tayto 52]

Why would you have thought it was a badger

[The one 8,485]

I would have went with buzzard as well .Dont reckon a badger would nip the fur off or leave the remains ?.

[kenny14 656]

It's a buzzard kill - the fluff has been plucked off it by the bird

 

OTC

It's definitely a bird of prey kill. As oldtrapcollector says, the fur's been plucked off which is a dead giveaway that it's been done with a beak rather than teeth. And it's also clear that it's not the belly fur from a nest chamber.

[Ratreeper 441]

It's a buzzard kill - the fluff has been plucked off it by the bird

 

OTC

 

That was my first guess (I kept birds of prey for years), but then a fox or badger would have needed to remove the remains. Which is plausible, but it seems very unlikely a buzzard could have made the kill, fed up, then a fox take the carcass in approximately an hour before I walked back. Or, I just missed it on my way past which is more likely, but it was still warm, and it wouldn't stay warm for long at all.