Went to check my cameras this morning and noticed a big hole has been burrowed into the ground in front of one of them. I was thinking it was either a coyote den or a woodchuck hole, but low and behold it's a badger. That makes a first for me - I've never seen a wild badger in IL before. Pretty cool.

Here he is having a standoff with one of the resident coyotes. Maybe I'll get some more pictures of him as the summer goes on, although I may move my camera now that I know he's there.