Hedgehog seen!

Posted on March 4, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Animal, Cat Food, Food, Garden, Hedgehog, hibernation, Life, Night, returned, Spring4 Comments

Last night my hubby went out in the garden to put some bird food out and almost tripped over a hedgehog! He said it seemed to be asleep at the base of the cherry tree. He went out again and took a bowl of cat food. This morning the bowl had been tipped over and the food was gone.

When we see hedgehogs I think of spring. It’s still pretty cold and we may get some snow, but they are coming out of hibernation.

DON’T FEED…. milk and bread, hedgehogs are lactose intolerant. They also don’t get enough calories from so called ‘hedgehog’ food. Apparently it’s just meal worms and pet food manufacturers are just trying to make money. You can feed them cat food. Ours seem to like fresh wet or dry cat food. Also nake gaps in wooden fences at their bases to allow hedgehogs through into your garden. .

Springwatch

Posted on June 5, 2022 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged badgers, Bbc TV, Birds, chicks, Hedgehog, Herons, Life, Nature, Owl painting, Springwatch, UKLeave a comment

I’m enjoying Springwatch on BBC TV. It started last week and runs Monday to Thursday for three weeks. It shows you wildlife in different parts of the United Kingdom. So far there have been birds and mammals, views of Herons on the nest, nature red in tooth and claw (a hedgehog munching on some ground nesting baby birds – who knew? ) and lots more. The presenters including Chris Packham are very informative and share lots of interesting and sometimes obscure information. We are promised among other things film of Badgers this week.

On a nest

Posted on May 29, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged coot, Cygnets, Duck, Ducklings, Hedgehog, hoglets, moorhen, Nest, Swan, Westport lake2 Comments

Can you see the bird on the nest? I think it might have been a coot or a moorhen, but it was hidden under the overhanging branches of an alder tree, floating on the small lake at Westport. We also saw two Swans with eight cygnets swimming behind them. It’s that time of year in the Northern Hemisphere when nature renews itself. You see ducks with their ducklings too. I hope we get hedgehogs in our garden again too. Their babies are called hoglet’s.

Noises in the garden and the shed.

Posted on October 7, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Cat, Dark, Disturbing, Food bowls, Hedgehog, In the garden, Life, Looking, Odd, Odd noises, Rain, Sounds, ThinkingLeave a comment

Snuffling, rushing past, got me rattled. Some sort of noise being created by a thing out in the garden. But the gates locked and the sheds shut. Bowls are rattled, things clash, is it the wind, a burglar, a rat, or a hedgehog? I guess hedgehog…. They like standing on the edges of their bowls to get at the cat food we put out for them. Not sure about the rushing past though? I think it’s the cat doing that…. Anyway we had a good walk round in the rain and the dark… Nothing dangerous seen… Maybe we’ve got badgers?…..

Hedgehog photos

Posted on September 27, 2020 Posted in Cat, UncategorizedTagged Abandoned cat, Catfood, Environment, Evening, Feeding, Food, Garden, Hedgehog, Life, Mammal, Nature, Night, PhotosLeave a comment

The hedgehogs are about tonight eating catfood again. I quietly opened the back door and saw one of them eating the catfood I’d left out for the abandoned cat. When it realised I was there it slowly scuttled off up the yard. When I looked again later all the cat food had gone. When the abandoned cat arrived I gave him a couple of pouches of wet cat food to make up for him missing supper.

I love out hedgehogs, I’m hoping they will weigh enough to survive winter. I think they are living in the back of the shed. My hubby says he hears snuffling in there late at night.

Clinking milk bottles

Posted on August 30, 2020August 30, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bottles, Environment, Funny, Hedgehog, Humour, Life, Milk, Nature, Poem, Poetry4 Comments

Last night at 1am

Clink clank went the bottles

Clatter, clunk, tinkle…

What is that?

Who is that?

Someone drunk?

Someone ill?

Why do that?

I’m opening the door…

Looking out?

Looking around,

Looking down….

Hedgehog! Rootling

Empty bottles

Tipped over!

Cheeky blighter!

Blurry hedgehog

Posted on July 26, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Eating, Garden visitor, Gardening, Happy, Hedgehog, Late night visitor, Life, Nature, PhotoLeave a comment

Just had his tea. Cat food. I opened the back door to put some food out for the stray cat and this was there. My hubby went out and the smaller one is in the shed. I didn’t disturb it to much, just looked out of the back door.

I love having wild animals visiting. Can’t wait to see if we get Hoglets!

Hedgehogged!

Posted on July 24, 2020July 24, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Drawing, Fun, Hedgehog, Hidden, Hubby, Nesting, Random, Shed, Shock, SurpriseLeave a comment

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My hubby just disturbed our hedgehogs nesting place in our shed. He put his hand on one of them and it spiked him! He didn’t know they were in there. He was trying to tidy the shed up. He also found that they had used a corner of the shed as a latrine. I’m not happy because he took our hoover out to clean up the shed! The hedgehogs were under bags of straw that we used to insulate the cat bed for the abandoned cat we look after.

They didn’t run out, just hunkered down, so he put the straw back in place. Hopefully they are here to stay!

Hedgehog dining.

Posted on June 29, 2020June 29, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Blurred, China bowl, Eating, Environment, Feeding, Food, Food bowl, Fun, Garden, Glad to help, Hedgehog, Humour, Nature, Photos, Poem, Poetry, Random, Rattle a bowl, WordPress2 Comments

A shady, spikey creature

Banging bowls together.

Clattering crockery,

Hog food left out for him.

Gobbling and scoffing quickly.

I opened the back door.

A glint in his eye and..

He scuttled off into the dark…

I imagined him saying

“I’ll be back……..”

Shock!

Posted on June 29, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Cat Food, Eating, Environment, Fun, Hedgehog, Life, Nature, Night, Shock, Wild gardenLeave a comment

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My hubby just opened the back door and started shouting ‘come here quick’, I rushed over, expecting to see the stray cat we feed by the back door. Instead there was a huge 🦔 Hedgehog. It was scoffing the cat food we had put out for the stray! It’s as big as a small cat. It rushed off into the night when it was disturbed. I know we haven’t had many slugs and snails lately despite the wet weather. Now I think I know why! Still a bit of a shock to see it in the middle of a city. As long as it keeps away from roads it should be OK.

Mallaband-Brown

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