In Between doing all this domestic goddess home improvement stuff I have been exploring my garden by night!!! For my birthday Dr Fred bought me a wildlife camera - a fab pressie (one which has scuppered my christmas present plans for him)!!
Some weeks ago we went outside in the vain hope of spotting some Perseid meteors - and found a hedgehog snuffling about on the lawn - I was quite excited - I am so loving the variation of wildlife this garden is giving us. I looked for him every night when I wandered to look for our frogs Grayson and Phillipa and the newt Isaac - who incidentally are very evident along with a quite a few yet unnamed froglets - but I only glimpsed the hedgehog once more so I started feeding him with scrambled egg and every morning the food was was gone and there was some vague evidence of hedgehog snuffling - but no further sightings...
I couldn't be sure what might be eating the food I was putting out - cats - rats - do newts like eggs? ...so I built a hedgehog feeding station - a wee plastic box with a small aperture cut so cats and such like couldn't get in and started to put Wilkos best hedgehog kibble out every night. Incidentally this is encouraged at this time of year so that Hogs can build up body weight ready for hibernation - Just before bed I would sneak down as quiet as possible with my phone torch on low (goodness knows what our neighbors think) waving to Philippa and Grayson and the frog chorus in passing and try and catch sight of Adamfrost the hedgehog - no sign at all except the food was going....
Now I have the camera and its just brilliant. It is reassuring to know that it is Adamfrost and his mate - probably Montydon eating the kibble and we have at least two hedgehogs as regular visitors to the garden. There are also lots of wee shrew / mouse like critters and a large number of slugs showing up - we need more hedgehogs!!!
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