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Uncovered hibernating hedgehog!

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Miljah · 26/12/2018 16:49

Only a little bit, thankfully, enough to see that he appeared big enough to survive a Hampshire winter in a relatively sheltered back garden.

I was clearing some of the leaves off a side bed, first opportunity this year now the bastarding killer wasps that made themselves a burrow in that bed, last Spring have either gone or are, too, hibernating- they wouldn't let me near the bed all summer); I have some low clumping ornamental grass that looks quite nice over winter, but it was flattened beneath leaves, so I pulled some off, then came across a bit of a dome of them, slicked together. I lifted the edge of this dome, and lo! So I quickly replaced the dome, placed another dump of leaves on top to the depth it had been, then got a metal dustbin lid which I propped up on bricks around the mound (several escape holes) so keep the worst of the rain off.

Hope he'll be okay, and feel privileged to have a hedgehog in the garden!

But a reminder to me to not be too tidy in the winter garden!

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madcatladyforever · 26/12/2018 16:54

That's brilliant Smile I was going to go out and clear the garden if it's nice tomorrow but I definitely won't now.
last summer I found the remnants of little leaf nests all over the garden, obviously not hedgehog as way too small but was wondering if they might be frogs.

Miljah · 26/12/2018 21:09

My garden isn't huge; it's 13 x10m, edge of suburbia! Oblong of turf, 3 sides of garden.

It was interesting that the moment I saw the 'dome' of slicked together leaves, underneath some of the cascade of ornamental grass, I wondered what it might be, given that dead leaves pile on top ...! Which is why I went 'easy' on my investigation!

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lucysmam · 26/12/2018 21:41

I nearly raked up a hedgehog at the start of last summer, sleeping on my decking, under some fallen leaves (three huge trees at the end of the garbden). I so want to go out with the rake and get rid of the fallen leaves now, but wi leave them alone for the moment so long as it's not tooooo bad.

lucysmam · 26/12/2018 21:42

*wi ll leave them

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