Badger sett to fox's den

On Friday (6^th June) Hazel and Dave, who were on holiday at Campbell's Cottage, set up their wildlife camera on the nearby badger sett in the hope of getting some badger footage; there were 18 good film clips over the weekend, but none contained a badger.

A couple of months earlier, maybe March or April, I saw a dead badger on the bottom lane and my neighbour said there had been a second one. Was that the nucleus of the sett wiped out? I think this is a satellite of a much larger sett about half a mile away.

Nature abhors a vacuum and foxes have taken up residence. In the YouTube film the latest time they returned to their adopted den was 07:34 and the earliest time of leaving was 20:40. About 1 minute into the film an adult is carrying something in its mouth and a few seconds later there are the terrified or outraged screams of some creature(s). A squirrel maybe? Anyone got any ideas?

Thanks Hazel and Dave for sharing this with us.