Wildlife photos please number 2

[Peanut]

I'm going to say it's the food Snoop, the thought that there might possible be hoglets in my garden is quite frankly too exciting to even ponder!

OMG there might be hoglets!!!!

[Snoop Puss]

^Do you have other earlier photos so you can compare the 'undercarriage'? Not easy to see in your first photos on here.

[Peanut]

I wish I did, but I don't.
don't even know if hedgie is male or female. Whilst I know this hedgie is my resident hedgie who lives in the old recycling bucket, as I saw him leaving his house last night before coming into the feeding station, I saw a hedgie 3 times in just over an hour last night munching the food and I have had to put out more food some nights, so I'm prettty sure there is at least one visitor.
All that said, I did think last night, how much bigger hedgie looks compared to when he first emerged in early Spring, but that could be perfectly normal.

[Nicos]

Looks like one of our local foxes is munching its way through the ‘June drop’ unripe cherries again…

[Nicos]

peanut

Any hedgie updates?

[Peanut]

Thanks for asking Nicos he or she is still living here in his bucket, still munching his food every night, I tried to get a photo of him outside of his feeding station, but he vanished amongst the pots before I had chance. I will keep trying

[Nicos]

^^^ great news!

[Plot70]

I spotted a hog browsing on spilled bird food at the allotment yesterday.

[Peanut]

Hedgie has moved to his summer residence!
I don't know where that is. I hope it is somewhere in the depths of my hedges or log piles, though he could have moved away to pastures new of course.
He is still here for food every night, I say he is, but I wouldn't recognise "my hedgie" from any other hedgies and there is definitely more than one most days due to the amount of food being eaten and the amount of poo!

The nest in the recycling box is a wonderful bit of building, but it must have been getting very hot in that plastic bucket!

[smallblueplanet]

Missed taking a photo, too entranced. Just had a youngish hare in the garden. They like eating grass apparently. Then it started to come onto the patio so I made a shooing noise at the doors, lol at it's feet skittering wildly on the patio slabs as it exited back across the lawn. Fab.

[Nicos]

How delightful for you SBP…
( watch out for your strawberries too )

[DannyK]

I have lived here since 1995 and have been using squirrel traps for five years.
The traps were left overnight as the squirrels get up early and the odd rat gets caught.
A week ago I had a surprise visitor! The first I've ever seen here.
Caught it four nights on the trot. It seems to like sunflower hearts. I now bait the traps and leave the doors off overnight.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/103667...res/7Y63s2F4E5

[Nicos]

Lovely to see you have a hedgehog visiting you. Good call though not setting the trap anymore.

[smallblueplanet]

Last time I saw a hedgehog in our garden, rather than just poo, was when we were having the garden redone and they were digging fence postholes. Left the holes uncovered, we discovered a very large hedgehog stuck in the bottom of one next morning. Difficult to lift it out! Keep your holes covered folks!

[Vince G]

Broad-bordered bee hawkmoth on my Lobelia ! Thought it was a huge bee untilI looked closer