Bonfire alert...and hedgehogs!

[Nicos]

Just a reminder please to thoroughly check inside bonfires before lighting them

the hedgehog population need all the help you can give them.
do remind other plot holders, gardeners, neighbours especially as it's bonfire celebrations and plot clearing time folks!

if you do choose to burn /bonfire incinerators are probably the safest way to go.

What do YOU do?

we compost or shred all our garden waste apart from weeds in seed and those we burn in a freshly made bonfire once they have wilted down. Our last incinerator fell to bits after several years of use, and I've never seen them for sale over here!

[jackarmy]

Astounds me how they manage to light the match with those tiny leetle paws

[Nicos]

Save me.......!

[jackarmy]

So cute

I actually saw a dead one on the road a few weeks ago, the first one in years, supposed to be a good sign , weird ey.

[Lisasbolt]

I love hedgehogs

[Aberdeenplotter]

haven't seen a hedgehog for a goodly number of years. Did have a hibernating one in my plot at one time which I discovered when tidying up. Disturbed its sleep poor thing but it should have let me know it was moving in

[Nicos]

I became passionate about saving/ rescuing them since helping my daughter do night duty when she was working at a rescue centre 10 years ago.
2 hrly feeds are exhausting!!!!

Since rescuing our own orphaned hedgehogs a couple of years ago I'm always mindful of them and hoping I'll get a glimpse one evening.

Apparently they are late hibernating this year because of the mild weather.

[Aberdeenplotter]

I felt a real sense of shame when Scottish National Heritage carried out a cull of these charming beasties in the western isles ostensibly to protect some rare seabirds. Didn't realise how long ago that was till I just gurgled it. Apparently there has been no noticeable increase in bird numbers as a result of the cull which makes me feel even worse.

But anyway, I suppose I'm tangentising which given the importance of the message in the o/p I should now stop

[Madasafish]

I am told barbecued hedgehog is very tasty. Never tried it.

:-)

[Lisasbolt]

We used to have one in our garden back in the UK, it came for food everyday would let me pick it up and have a stroke (not sure if thats the right spelling!) I loved that hog.
We went traveling for 4 months and my mum was under instructions to let bits for him/her, one day when she went the poor thing was really injured (by what i do not know) she took it to the animal shelter not too far. I never saw him/her again

[Nicos]

They are utterly beautiful creatures once you get to know them aren't they??
Mischievous,greedy, very fast!!!, lovely soft fur on their tummies and faces ( yeh- not easy not to humanise them) and lovely snuffly wet noses! ...and make funny noises as they scoff their food down too)
yup- BUT - Very sharp teeth and spines

[Knight of Albion]

Just a reminder please to thoroughly check inside bonfires before lighting them

the hedgehog population need all the help you can give them.
do remind other plot holders, gardeners, neighbours especially as it's bonfire celebrations and plot clearing time folks!

if you do choose to burn /bonfire incinerators are probably the safest way to go.

What do YOU do?

we compost or shred all our garden waste apart from weeds in seed and those we burn in a freshly made bonfire once they have wilted down. Our last incinerator fell to bits after several years of use, and I've never seen them for sale over here!

A fine thread. Very thoughtful of you, dear Nicos. Bless you for caring.

[Knight of Albion]

They are utterly beautiful creatures once you get to know them aren't they??
Mischievous,greedy, very fast!!!, lovely soft fur on their tummies and faces ( yeh- not easy not to humanise them) and lovely snuffly wet noses! ...and make funny noises as they scoff their food down too)
yup- BUT - Very sharp teeth and spines

Yes, they're beautiful creatures. Used to be commonplace before the war but since the war their numbers have been on the slide. More people, more buildings, more cars, the demise of the 'cottage garden' ...

Hard to be positive about the long term.

[Knight of Albion]

We used to have one in our garden back in the UK, it came for food everyday would let me pick it up and have a stroke (not sure if thats the right spelling!) I loved that hog.
We went traveling for 4 months and my mum was under instructions to let bits for him/her, one day when she went the poor thing was really injured (by what i do not know) she took it to the animal shelter not too far. I never saw him/her again

I wonder if it was a strimmer? Infernal things! I'd never use one.

[veggiechicken]