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\"Keep<\/p>\n

We were delighted\u00a0to find a hedgehog in our garden last year.\u00a0 We’ve never seen one this high up before and often wondered how we could encourage them to our veggie plot.<\/p>\n

Hedgehogs are meat eaters that like to snack on\u00a0slugs, caterpillars, beatles\u00a0and earthworms and\u00a0we certainly have a supply of those little critters\u00a0as organic gardeners.<\/p>\n

We’d sadly\u00a0seen dead hedgehogs\u00a0at the side of the main road down below, but not a hint of one up here, dead, injured or alive.\u00a0 Then out of the blue,\u00a0as we were locking up the chickens one evening towards the end of last summer, we spotted a one eyed fellow tucking into the chicken pellets.\u00a0 I can’t begin to tell you how excited we all were.\u00a0 Every evening for about a month we\u00a0caught sight of\u00a0him somewhere near the hen house and were careful not to alarm him.\u00a0 Ian nicknamed him ‘One Eyed Jack’ and we\u00a0encouraged the children to stay up (not difficult<\/em>) and watch him snuffle around the pen at the back of the house at the weekends.<\/p>\n

As the nights were drawing in we dug out an old guinea pig hutch, and half buried it in the undergrowth close to the hens in the hope that ‘one eye’ would find it and hibernate. Sadly, when we\u00a0took a peek\u00a0a few\u00a0weeks later, it was still empty.<\/p>\n

And then one evening this summer\u00a0as we were putting the hens to bed, underneath the hedgerow we spotted a hedgehog.\u00a0 We’re not sure if it was ‘one eye’\u00a0– we couldn’t get close enough to tell as\u00a0she\/he\u00a0was under the prickly Rosa rugosa<\/em>.\u00a0It was definitely a hedgehog though\u00a0and not an old broom.<\/p>\n

So hopefully this\u00a0little fellow will find his\/her own place to settle for the winter months and we’ll get another peek next year.<\/p>\n

\"LookI like the idea that wild creatures are able to live around us, and we’re barely aware they’re there.\u00a0 We’ve seen a couple of badgers within a mile of us but wouldn’t have a clue where their\u00a0set was.<\/p>\n

We often see signs of foxes in the garden and one day whilst I was working at the computer, I\u00a0looked up to see two young ones frolicking in the field opposite.<\/p>\n

One of\u00a0our favourite discoveries\u00a0this year was when we were clearing the main crop potatoes\u00a0and unearthed this little fellow. I was surprised to read that most amphibians here\u00a0(apart from newts)\u00a0only need water for breeding,\u00a0leaving it to spend most of the year on land. There they feed on flies, worms and other invertebrates in the shelter of nettle beds (so another great reason for not having gardens that are too tidy!). That would\u00a0explains why we sometimes see them here even though we don’t have a pond, just a natural spring down the lane.<\/p>\n

If you’d like more information on hedgehogs, with interesting facts and diagrams on building your own hibernating shelters, check out the British Hedgehog Preservation Society<\/a>. Hedgehogs hibernate around October\/November time, often in compost heaps or wood piles, so bear them in mind when you’re tidying up the garden before the winter.<\/p>\n

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