Allotments 4 All
Produce => Wildlife forum => Topic started by: Kea on February 25, 2009, 16:33:30
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i was up at the allotment this morning and I started to clear up the straw i'd used around the squash. So I started with an obvious pile of straw and as i lifted it i wondered why it had formed itself into a sort of half spherical shape....
then has i lifted it I felt something move against my fingers!...........
and there was something alive in the pile..........
it was a hedgehog and i had partly woken him up.
i quickly put everything back and it must of worked as he didn't come out.
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chuck another layer on him / her they'll appreciate the extra insulation!
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Found a nest under some garden debris, a hedgehog must have used it at some time.
there was a smooth ' bowl ' of soft dried grass and the soil was hollowed -- a good
hedgie shape, but the whole thing was sodden after the snow.
Wonder where they went and if they are OK. ? :-\
floss xxx
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If there is no hedgehog in attendance, it could be a Field Vole - they make neat roundish nests out of those materials too.
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chuck another layer on him / her they'll appreciate the extra insulation!
Yes I did put more straw on and I put a brick where I'd removed the clump of grass on the windward side so he's got a low wall behind.
I get lots of field voles...they nest under my carpet and the make nests from bits of carpet they've pulled off.
i'm keen for the hedgehog to stay around though as i have huge slugs i'd like him/her to eat.
The hedgehog was definitely there Redclanger.......he started to wake up as I had partly lifted him.