Here are some of the garden visitors who showed up during my hour ...
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| Blackbird |
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| Robin |
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| Blue tit |
Nearly a fortnight on ... and the hedgehog is still visiting.
I would love to know if s/he may yet hibernate. We have already had a cold snap when we had to break the ice on the water bowl. The advice seems to be to keep feeding while the animal continues to visit unless s/he looks very under weight or unwell.
A very happy new year,
filled with wildlife,
to all who are reading this post.
Some of you will know that we have been feeding a 'regular' hedgehog in our garden. We bought a hedgehog house just over a year ago in the hope that we might have a hibernating visitor.
The hedgehog has continued to delight us this year, but it seems she (we think it's a female) is reluctant to settle down, despite the icy temperatures. I know hedgehogs occasionally wait until mid-December to hibernate, but surely 4th January is rather late. We have been trying to feed her up with nightly meals and we so hope she makes it through to the spring.
