As we have been spending more time here at GBT than we had been expecting, Mr GBT kindly took the time to capture a photo of this garden visitor the other evening.....heaven only knows what our neighbours would have thought if they'd seen him hanging out of the upstairs window armed with a long camera lens at 11pm 👀😮😏. This is the perfectly innocent explanation and yes that's a natty piece of straw on its nose from where it had been rummaging about in the border looking for tasty hedgehog snacks🦔🦔🦔
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This one times its visits so that it has time to eat a decent sized supper before bully boy rocks up and starts hassling it...there are two bowls with exactly the same amount of food, but it goes without saying that he wants the one which this one is already eating from. They might look cute, but Mrs Tiggywinkle they are not....they are noisy, feisty little things who think nothing of charging at another one and bulldozing it out of the way when it rolls up into a ball. It's very much like the game of croquet with the flamingo and hedgehogs which Alice attempts to play in Wonderland sometimes!!
Arilx
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Lol. What a description! I can envision it perfectly!
ReplyDeleteWatching the footage of other hogs online their behaviour is quite unexpected sometimes!
DeleteYou lucky things. We haven't had hedgehogs here for years dedpjte houses for them, and water and food - which we suspect foxy eats. Xxx Mr T
ReplyDeleteWe didn't have any for 20 years...the only difference is that we had a hedgehog door put in the base of our new fence and then they started appearing again.
DeleteYou are right. They are really noisy, as we discovered one evening when my husband went out late to water the garden and a feeding hedgehog was NOT happy to have company! It grunted loudly at him and then calmly carried on feeding when he had backed off.
ReplyDeleteOurs just stand stock still if we come across them by accident!
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