Thursday, 9 January 2025

New Year Greetings of the Hedgehog Kind

 



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.