Hi Annie,
It’s good to hear about all the wildlife in your garden. I still have some hogs visiting. At least one adult and potentially 2 good sized looking hoglets. I sometimes see one with an adult, although not sure the adult is too pleased about that – but no biffing, so I suspect that adult is a female. It’s always a bit sad when they all go off to hibernate.
I still see the occasional mouse on the video, but (probably shouldn’t say it because one will probably turn up again now!) the rat has been absent for a while.
You are lucky seeing an elephant hawk moth caterpillar! I saw one many years ago and they are quite amazing. I’ve been hoping ever since to see another, but no such luck. And I didn’t ever see the moth.
I have given up with the bats now that it’s getting cold outside. I had a little card giving the wavelengths, but there seem several species on the same wavelength as pipistrelles and I’m not sure how likely it is that I’ll hear those others. I always suspected there were some sort of long eared ones as the ones on video look to be long eared, but not sure if that is too simplistic. I’ll have to check it out a bit better before the spring.
Yes, that grass snake was pretty amazing. I just hope it survived. There is a pond not far away which apparently has lots of frogs, so maybe not surprising the snake was so big. I imagine that’s where the frogs in my garden come from.
Sorry to hear your friend had only been seeing mice on her camera. Fingers crossed she’ll have better luck next year with hog videos.
I hope your tiny hog has now turned into a big enough one for hibernation and that all the hogs there and everywhere have a successful hibernation time.
