Hi Annie
Best wishes for 2019 to you as well. Hedgehog matters are definitely light relief from politics at the moment!
I still have one hoglet visiting. The other one was last seen on Christmas Eve, so hopefully is safely hibernating now. The remaining one is still visiting every night. I saw him ‘in real life’ last night and could see that he now appears to have grown quite big. Sadly he’s the one who doesn’t go in the boxes, but the new arrangements with the Perspex seem to have put the cats off – for now at least. I still have a mouse visiting, and sometimes a rat, but not every night. I see the hoglet quite a bit foraging on the grass, so he is still getting some ‘wild’ food as well, which is good.
I don’t know if any of the hogs are under the shed this year, but there has been a nest there in the past. It would be lovely and dry in the middle. It won’t be long now, until some of the boys return from hibernation. I wonder if any of my old regulars will come back, as most of them disappeared at some stage last year. (pre-hibernation time).
I, also, seem to have blackbirds back, – they are often seen on video in the early morning – a competition between them and the robins for first bird to arrive. The robins appear to have paired up already – often two seen quite close together without chasing each other. Plenty of jackdaws here too.
I was wondering whether it would be a good idea to start a new topic. What do you think? Maybe it doesn’t matter that this one has got quite long! I’ll leave it to you to decide.
