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Fox highlight of the week was the night it made a rather concerted effort to get the food inside the hedgehog feed station. It could obviously smell the cat biscuits inside and was hungry enough to try very hard to get at them. There’s no real way that it could dig in, although it hadContinue reading “Fox & The Feed Station”

The fox, and I’m still working on the assumption that it’s always the same fox, has become a regular visitor to the garden. It’s now appearing nearly every night, with or without the enticement of food. It always enters the garden via the hole in the fence created for the hedgehogs and I have beenContinue reading “Fox Update”

It’s taken a long time but I’ve finally, today, recorded my 30th different bird species in the garden. The lucky bird number 30 was a Redstart and I was also very fortunate to record it drinking from the water dish. I didn’t actually see the bird live, so I’ve only got the video as proof,Continue reading “Bird Number 30 – Redstart”

I have a clear winner this week for my nature highlight after I spotted my first frog in the garden pond. Here it is. Already excited, I then saw, a couple of days later, a second, so there are at least two frogs. When I created the pond I had high hopes of attracting frogs,Continue reading “Pond Life”

The major event of Spring has finally arrived for me as yesterday the Swifts have returned here to Paris. The exact date of my first sighting this year of a group above the house was the 7th May, at least a couple of weeks later than last year. I was beginning to get a bitContinue reading “The Swifts are Back”

I’m now frequently leaving out an egg for the fox and last night another of my garden visitors had a really good try to take it. So as a follow-up to the recent post ‘The Fox and the Egg’, I give you ‘The Hedgehog and the Egg’. A spoiler. The egg wins.

Originally posted on Wildonline.blog:
Hedgehog Awareness Week runs from 2nd – 8th May this year and it aims to raise the profile of the Britain’s only spiny mammal. This year the Hedgehog preservation society is asking people create their very own hedgehog haven! Gardens are a stronghold for hedgehogs, and we can make their lives so much easier…

It’s been very, very quiet this week in the garden, I’ve left out food in the feed station on most nights but on several there have been no hedgehog visitors at all. This is really rare, to have no visits during an entire night, especially when there is food available, so why is this happening?Continue reading “All Quiet on the Hedgehog Front”

Following its’ first visit to my garden on Monday the fox has kept coming back. Not every night, but on several occasions, it came back, typical for an investigation of the Hedgehog Feed station. I guess it could smell the hedgehog food, which is dried cat biscuits, and wanted to get at it. Obviously, IContinue reading “The Fox and the Egg”