Hedgehogs

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Sorry to be such an imbecile but I don't know how to find the thread titled 'old brock' !!!

Thred titled 'old brock'

Oh golly! What and where is the picture thread?! Sorry, I am new!

They're in the picture thread (or at least one is)

No pictures!

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flower I like your sense of humour!
I have a resident fox, which I don't mind as he doesnt cause me any trouble, but I've only once seen a hedgehog in the garden: do you think the fox is deterring them?

True true

But at least we rebury the dead!

ooer, strange hobby Flickety

Worms and moles are much more effective than badgers at bringing bones to the surface in grave yards. DS and I share a passion for old churches and when we walk around the church yard we always keep an eye open for knuckle bones (hands and feet) in any mole hills or recently disturbed soil we see. No, we do not pick them up. Usually we try to tread them into the soils so that they are no longer visible.

Nope also fresh ones. A good friend of mine is an exterminator and was asked by a Wildlife Trust to either remove or exterminate a sett of badgers who had been undermining and robbing a recent grave. The letter was sent in Welsh and red tape deemed that the instruction be in Welsh also. (Don't ask me) because of this I am not sure if it went ahead, he was still waiting for the Welsh instruction and order to be given and that was over 2 years ago.

They don't seem to have been deliberately digging up fresh corpses though, like the resurrectionists. These were graves that had been there for hundreds of years, which were in the way when the badgers were extending their setts. Not as horrific as it sounds on reading the headlines.

Badgers have also been known to raid graveyards by burrowing underneath less said the better.

Why thank you Nellie, my forte

Flower I like your style at conflict management!

I would love a badger!+

Unfortunately Galen if you have badgers you are unlikely to also have hedgehogs as the badgers eat them.

I am now going to do what hedgehogs do!
Hibernate ( unfortunately, for tonight only)
Goodnight all !

Oh dear

Tried that! Got badgers and squirrels(grey) who dug up the lawn! No hedgehogs!

Galen I once enticed them into my garden by leaving a trail of "monkey nuts" and slowly they did come in

I've been trying to entice them into my garden for ages! Lovely succulent giant slugs and snails to die for!
Completely organic! Log piles in strategic places. No humans except on Monday morning when Gary (Gardner) is supposed to garden.
How many have I got?
None!

I used to run a Wildlife Watch Group locally, my DDH and I had had a falling out, we were not married at the time, he was being obnoxious, can't remember why.
He was carrying out a squashed hedgehog survey as part of his work as Countryside Officer. He had asked me if I would ask the Watch group to send any records of squashed hedgehogs to his office. (This would give the average number of hedgehogs in the area) I asked them to carefully place the hedgehog in a padded envelope and send it to his office. I did regret it when we had made up the argument but it was too late and he did received 3 of the creatures. I was forgiven but didn't tell him the whole story until a good few years later.