A most welcome visitor

Well I am a bit of a night bird - so as longs as its before 1.0 I may well be still up.

Bonnie may not hear too good, but his sense of smell is acute - and therefore he will hone in on them in seconds even when they are curled up unmoving, when it would take me ages with a torch. Tis amazing the number of rustlings and movement you hear in the garden late at night - goodness know what else is out hunting in my garden - thankfully not rabbits or deer :thumb:

 

Great to see
I haven't seen a hedgehog here for many years
Mind you .. I am in bed around 10 o'clock these days
Maybe that has something to do with it .......

 

We sometimes see hedgehogs, but more often see deposits on the lawn which I'm pretty sure courtesy of hedgehogs, although I'm not an expert in such matters. (Is there anyone who is?)

 

Marley - I'm with you on that. If ever I get a lorra money - I'd like to set up an infra red camara and see just what is going on. With the woodland type bit of garden at the end - I do try and garden for wildlife, but I rarely see any except for the bugs, and my most welcome other friends frogs and toads.

Currently I'm going through the mess that repointing brings - with scaffolding all round the house. But judging from Bonnie's interest on occasions after dark, I'm still getting unseen nocturnal visitors.

 

Last october, after a family and friends afternoon together, we all decided to go down to our local beach, not far away, there was a quick tidy up and locking of doors, but I couldn't find the back door key. Accusations flew about around the toddlers, and I decided to search the ground under the Wistaria in case the key had fallen on the ground. What a painful shock I got! A very young hedgehog was curled up deeply amongst the leaves, very sweet! All the kids, big and small clamoured to see it, and we gently put it back where it stayed for quite a long time, when checking a couple of months later the pile of leaves appeared 'flatter' and in spring when we cleared up, there was no trace.
Jan, New Forest East

 

From Bonnie's reactions at dusk I am certain you are right Marley.

However, you should just see the mess on my flowers and plants from the dust and debris - my new side bed was the site of some of the scaffolding poles, and new eryginium have been flattened. I just can not wait for them to done and gone so I can set about saving what I can.

Repointing's gotta be done, and plants are tough - but it hurts to see the damage all the same.