I’d just nipped into the kitchen for a drink at dusk last night, when I noticed one of the cats was glued to the window. This isn’t that unusual, the night before in heavy rain I’d seen this particular cat trying to out-stare a frog on the patio outside the door. Seriously.
Half expecting to see the the frog returned to resume the stare-off, instead I saw a hedgehog scurry purposefully past the door and down the garden path! The hedgehog was back!
We’d had a hedgehog hibernate in the garden over winter, and stick around for a couple of nights before going off on it’s travels – naturally as soon as I’d stocked up on hedgehog food and invested in the trail cam. So I’m thrilled that it’s back.
I quickly went outside and jury-rigged a feeding station out of a paving slab and a couple of bricks to protect the food from the local cats, and set up the trail cam. 5 minutes later the sound of loud crunching was coming from that end of the garden, so I knew that my prickly friend had found the food at least. I could only hope that I’d positioned the trail cam correctly to pick up some footage – turns out that trying to position one in the dark is quite challenging, who’d have thought? 😉
When I downloaded the images this morning I was happy to see that I’d managed to capture some good footage, and that the hedgehog had stayed in the garden for a good few hours. The Hedgehog Cafe will be open for business again tonight, and I’m hoping that a regular supply of food will encourage it to stay around!
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