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Two visitors to the same garden in Ironbridge in Shropshire. But as you can see the badger on the left is very different. This is an erythristic badger, not quite albino but half way there! Because badgers are nocturnal it's very hard to spot an erythristic badger. It's usually too dark to tell them apart from their black and white cousins. But these the owner of this garden encourages badgers into visit by feeding them and so they are used to the bright house lights. And that means there's enough illumination for us to spot the difference.

Springwatch has also captured an erythristic badger on tape in the past and you can find their film here. And the wildlife cameraman who captured our shots has some badger filming tips .

Of course not everyone likes having badgers in their gardens. In Wolverhampton we tried to capture on film some hooligan urban badgers. But as you can see they took a dislike to our gnomecam and attacked it, knocking him flat. If you don't want a badger set in your garden your options are pretty limited and we'll be returning to this topic in the future on Midlands Today.

Update: Thanks for your responses so far. Gnomecam meanwhile is becoming quite the .

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