Monday night's hedgehogs

More hedgehog photos from Friday night

Friday night's early hog

This hog couldn't wait for darkness to fall and was happily munching on mealworms, sunflower seeds and chopped peanuts while it was still dusk, shortly before 10pm tonight. Neither did it seem bothered by my presence nor Elsa bombing around the garden like a mad thing.

Saturday night/Sunday morning hogs

Is it a sheep or is it a pig?

OK, these aren't our usual kind of "hogs" on this blog and they aren't even wildlife, but I had to share these photos with you. I was in Oxford yesterday and saw these woolly pigs amongst some animals that were being shown as part of a "Garden Festival" at the Oxford Castle complex. Apparently they are a rare pedigree breed known as Mangalitza pigs.

Hedgehogs, woodpigeons, and the return of another recent visitor

It was a very hot and humid night, and there were numerous hedgehog visits throughout.





As usual, the woodpigeons come down to pick over the leftovers in the morning:



But who is this in the bottom right-hand corner of the photo:

Could it be our visitor from a few days ago again?

Yes!

Conclusive evidence that we now have a squirrel visiting.

And a cheeky one at that!

At the bottom of the garden...

I thought I'd try putting the camera down at the end of the garden to see what I could capture of the comings and goings at the secondary feeding station.

But, as you can see the infrared flashback causes a lot of white-out on the grass.

A great shame, but you get an idea of the activity.

Another wet night and a new visitor

Wet again, and as on other such occasions, the hedgehog visits are fewer with only a handful of photos being captured throughout the night.


Come daylight some of the usual suspects come down to pick over the remains of the food the hedgehogs left behind...

...plus a visitor I very rarely see in this garden. I can only think that this is a grey squirrel.