If you have to have a bonfire, please build it on the day and look out for hedgehogs who may be hibernating! These iconic animals are seriously in decline and may become extinct in our lifetime unless we make a real effort to help them.
Healthy hedgehogs are getting into hibernation mode at the moment but young and underweight hogs may still be up and about, desperately searching for food.
Please help them make a healthy weight by leaving out cat biscuits (with a high meat content) and water (no mealworms or birdseed which give them metabolic bone disease). Proprietary hedgehog foods are usually expensive and often contain harmful ingredients. Also, contrary to myth, hedgehogs only eat slugs when desperate as they give them lungworm.
Follow @HedgehogCabin on Twitter or her fantastic website, hedgehogcabin.info/ for excellent advice on what you can do to help. I started following her a few years ago and have learnt so much.