Look Who Called in Today
Look Who Called in TodayAngela
Usually Barking Up the Wrong Tree Re: Look Who Called in TodayAwwww he is lovely and what a superb photo. I hope your girls left him some slugs to chomp on.
Re: Look Who Called in TodayWe so rarely see these nowadays, sadly.
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Re: Look Who Called in TodayA couple of months ago our GSD Misty came in from the garden and dropped what I thought was a football on the kitchen floor. Then I realised it was a hedgehog curled into a ball.
She hadn't hurt it and it toddled off into the shrubbery. Dom Ali Woks My World
Re: Look Who Called in TodayI would so love to see one of these in my garden
We had them at home when I was a kid, but haven't seen one (outside of wildlife centers) in many years.
Re: Look Who Called in Todayawwww love hedgehogs, haven`t seen one in years though, we don`t get them in our garden because there`s too many badgers about
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Re: Look Who Called in TodayWe have one sleeping in a cat basket in the lean-to behind our garage at the moment. He was making a nuisance of himself, winding the chickens up every evening, trying to find somewhere warm to sleep. We filled a basket with straw & left it in the lean-to - he's taken leaves, grass, all kinds of bits and pieces in there & has been asleep for about a month now.
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Re: Look Who Called in TodayWe get hedgehogs in our garden regularly, never seen a real life badger though.
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Re: Look Who Called in TodayNo hedgehogs since the arrival of the hens as they have stolen the overgrown bit of garden where the hedgehogs used to play. Paddy the springer spaniel was a devil for bringing them in too. I would have thought they would still have been sleeping through the winter, has the changing climate encouraged more to stop hibernating ?
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Re: Look Who Called in TodayWhen our hedgehog was still wandering around well into November, I looked it up. Apparently they don't always hibernate, and can manage without, unless the weather gets really cold. We haven't had any properly cold weather here yet this winter - a couple of light frosts, but nothing worse. The hedgehog at our last house seemed to vanish from the end of October until the end of April.
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Re: Look Who Called in TodayLovely picture Angela, we don't seem to get hedgehogs around here anymore either .
Hope he becomes a regular visitor for you The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have
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Re: Look Who Called in TodayWhat a lovely photo of a hedgehog, they have such cute faces. We have had a couple in garden over the years we have lived here but they generally do not seem to be a round so much nowadays whereas once they were a common sighting in a garden. Saz, badgers are great to see, know there is a lot of contraversy around them nowadays but they are quite stunning, used to go badger watching when I lived on Dartmoor.
Re: Look Who Called in TodayIts a long long time since I saw a Hedgehog. They are usually at the side of the road if I do see one. Makes me so sad
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Re: Look Who Called in TodayI think he was quite young, certainly not fully grown,and he seemed quite tame. The hens were quite curious, he toddled around for ages.
Angela
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Re: Look Who Called in TodayI've had one this year as well - but he looked on the small side and I was worried he wouldn't make it through the winter - hopefully the mild weather will have helped his chances.
Certainly not as many around as there used to be - but since I stopped using slug pellets a few years ago now have seen a few (and lots more frogs and toads and less slugs too) Julie
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