Below me, about 20 feet away, what seem to be two large carpet bags are going at it. The streetlight is too dim to allow much colour into the scene, but the carpet bags seem grey. One of them disengages and moves rapidly away from the house; the other carpet bag pauses briefly and then follows. I see now, of course, that these are not carpet bags, but badgers. The badger running away stops and almost at once so does the other. Then, simultaneously, they turn and start running in the opposite direction, back towards the house. This happens a couple more times, back and forth. Then they start scrapping again.