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Hedgehog watch and other nocturnal garden visitors

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Eynsham Red 13 Jul 4:51pm, 13 Jul 2021 7746 posts	0 Eynsham Red I know this isn’t a solely a nocturnal creature, but I saw dozens of these little crtitters today while duck weeding the pond. They’re no more than 10mm head to tail at the moment. They may not be pretty but they are very delicate.
Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs) 13 Jul 8:02pm, 13 Jul 2021 32057 posts	0 Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs) Oooh, nice find
Eynsham Red 21 Jul 10:24pm, 21 Jul 2021 7767 posts	0 Eynsham Red The hedgehog has been around a lot tonight. Feeding and drinking, and then off into the undergrowth making some quite loud noises, as if blowing out of its nose hard. It’s repeated this three or four times in the last hour.
Yorkshire Pie 22 Jul 8:51am, 22 Jul 2021 14126 posts	0 Yorkshire Pie Do you have multiple hedgehogs perhaps? Ours tend to make that noise when there is another one around.
Eynsham Red 22 Jul 9:00am, 22 Jul 2021 7768 posts	0 Eynsham Red Yes YP. We have a regular (small one) and our neighbour has another (larger one). We have seen them together occasionally. Last night though we only saw one. No doubt the other was somewhere around.
Bazoaxe 22 Jul 9:12am, 22 Jul 2021 20478 posts	0 Bazoaxe Not hedgehogs but we have some night time garden activity that is annoying Mrs Axe. She has acquired a 1/3rd beer barrel that acts as a planter on our patio and a few weeks ago she was adding some plants into it. While ferreting in the compost she felt something and pulled out a half eaten decomposing pigeon. I wasnt there when this happened but I believe she screamed. The pigeon was disposed of. Ever since, whatever buried the pigeon (a fox I am guessing) has returned and been digging in the barrel to find the remainder of its meal and leaving compost all over the patio.
Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs) 22 Jul 10:29am, 22 Jul 2021 32085 posts	0 Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs) Yuk!
PenW 22 Jul 10:48am, 22 Jul 2021 2293 posts	0 PenW 2 hedgehogs last night making lots of noise! The dog heard and was totally distracted by them (when he was supposed to be doing his night time wee).
Meeps 22 Jul 2:00pm, 22 Jul 2021 8900 posts	0 Meeps Ewww to the pigeon We had 2 the other night, caught on camera having a bit of a fight!
Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs) 22 Jul 2:54pm, 22 Jul 2021 32086 posts	0 Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs) We had this one turn up for an early dinner the other evening We regularly have 2 or 3 different hogs visit to feed. A fox has been visiting the last couple of nights, it managed to get into both feeding stations, I am surprised so much fox can fit into a small opening, it’s only the hips that prevented getting fully inside!

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