| As you walk along, notice that the banks are riddled with badger setts and boltholes. |
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| His mother gave birth to him and his brother in a garage in Cumbria because all the badger setts had been flooded. |
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| The Council will soon start work to make Rawson Place traffic-free and pave it with Yorkshire flags and granite setts. |
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| The families suffered a night of unbearable suspense before the disturbed earth was revealed as nothing more than two badger setts. |
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| The night before the hunt, foxhunters cover up any earths and badger setts to make sure that the foxes have to run until exhausted. |
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| Foxhunters block up earths and badger setts the night before the hunt to ensure that foxes are forced to run until exhausted. |
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| Scottish Natural Heritage and the Highland Council have joined forces with developers to commission a major survey of badgers and their setts. |
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| Some terriers' tails were cropped because it made it easier for them to get into badger setts, fox dens and the like. |
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| Badgers inherit setts from their parents, generation after generation, while always expanding and refining them. |
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| Swindon is blessed with many badger setts around the town but the rapid growth taking place has seen many of our badgers put at risk. |
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| Paving with small setts developed from a centuries-old tradition of cobbled streets. |
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| The natural shape of setts and different laying designs or techniques, may result in variations to these values. |
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| We did it by laying trails of peanuts to coax them to move out to new setts. |
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| There is also the risk of sending wounded animals back down their setts to die a slow death. |
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| The badgers on our land don't just stick to their own setts, they move from sett to sett with a number of satellite setts in between. |
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| But the report says experts from the council's countryside section have inspected the site and found no evidence of badger setts or habitats for deer. |
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| Lothian and Borders Police said the pair had also been charged with allegedly breaching badger protection laws after badger setts were found to have been tampered with. |
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| Many hunts take steps the night before, or early on the day of the hunt, to block up the entrances to earths, badger setts and artificial places such as drains. |
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| Badgers and their setts are protected under the Protection of Badgers Act 1992, which makes it illegal to kill, injure or take badgers, or interfere with a sett. |
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| A Pembrokeshire county councillor faces up to six months in prison after being found guilty of deliberately destroying badger setts on land he was developing. |
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| In many cases, slabs and setts are poorly laid with considerable discrepancies from paviour to paviour giving an uneven surface which is abnormal. |
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| Apart from populated badger setts, you will also find plenty of nesting birds and waterbirds. |
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| They tend to be smaller in scale, generally 2 or 3 storeys in height with the buildings immediately fronting a shared area, frequently with granite setts. |
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| Some badgers may build their setts in close proximity to poultry or game farms without ever causing damage. |
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| The old market-square was not very large, a mere bare patch of granite setts, usually with a few fruit-stalls under a wall. |
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| Money's pouring in somewhere, because Churchgate's got lovely new stone setts, and a cultural quarter is promised. |
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| It is nocturnal and is a social, burrowing animal that sleeps during the day in one of several setts in its territorial range. |
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| Badgers typically eat prey on the spot, and rarely transport it to their setts. |
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| Who blocked the sett, and why, remains unclear – police are investigating a number of allegations that badger setts in and around the village of Forthampton, near Tewksbury, have been illegally blocked in recent weeks. |
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| The consumptions stated in the table below refer to areas of natural stone setts with cropped edges and has been compiled from our own extensive experience. |
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| In modern colours, setts made up of blue, black and green tend to be obscured. |
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| The setts painted all differ from one another and very few of those painted show any resemblance to today's clan tartans. |
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| They may share their setts with red foxes or European rabbits. |
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| They emerge from their setts at eight weeks of age, and begin to be weaned at twelve weeks, though they may still suckle until they are four to five months old. |
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| Grey granite was quarried at Rubislaw quarry for more than 300 years, and used for paving setts, kerb and building stones, and monumental and other ornamental pieces. |
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| They typically stop leaving their setts once snow has fallen. |
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| Can work night and day without fatigue by two setts of boys. |
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| Some setts may have exits which are only used in times of danger or play. |
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| These setts can be vast, and can sometimes accommodate multiple families. |
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