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Oh no! That is so sad. My heart bleeds for your aunt.Sadly, my aunt has had to have Cassie put to sleep as she was emaciated and the vet felt her age was not helping her even if they did any surgery to make her eat. We are all very sad especially my aunt who has lost her husband and now her only other companion.
Beautiful portrait I haven’t seen a hedgehog for years. Strange. Our partly messy garden is perfect for them. And we’ve had them earlier. PAUSE I now read what I suspected. There are becoming fewer because of traffic and chemicals. On the Swedish Red List of Threatened Species since last year16th October - Night Visitor
I have been putting out food for the hedgehogs and have seen two feeding together, but last night I was able to capture one of them tucking into the food.
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That is one of the reasons I made the stumpery at the top of our front garden and added a hedgehog house to try and encourage them. Do you have a project called hedgehog highways in Sweden. It is very popular here with many people being encouraged to cut a small hole in the adjoining fences or leaving gaps under walls, etc so that the hogs can travel around safely without having to go across too many roads.Beautiful portrait I haven’t seen a hedgehog for years. Strange. Our partly messy garden is perfect for them. And we’ve had them earlier. PAUSE I now read what I suspected. There are becoming fewer because of traffic and chemicals. On the Swedish Red List of Threatened Species since last year
I don’t know. I’ve never heard of it, but it sounds like a great ideaThat is one of the reasons I made the stumpery at the top of our front garden and added a hedgehog house to try and encourage them. Do you have a project called hedgehog highways in Sweden. It is very popular here with many people being encouraged to cut a small hole in the adjoining fences or leaving gaps under walls, etc so that the hogs can travel around safely without having to go across too many roads.
Here’s the link for you to have a look. Perhaps you could get it going in your country?I don’t know. I’ve never heard of it, but it sounds like a great idea
Thanks Jan I will keep this link and see if I can do somethingHere’s the link for you to have a look. Perhaps you could get it going in your country?
Link your garden with a hedgehog highway
Hedgehogs travel between one and two kilometres a night, so linking your garden to its neighbours is the most important thing you can do to help them.www.hedgehogstreet.org
Nominated for October Image of the Month3rd October - Searching for Something!
Caught this bee mooching over the thistle flower with his legs astride and head down as if he was searching for something he’d lost.
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Wow, it really looks like the earth28th October - Lichen
Decided to use one of my Lichen images and imported into Deep Art Effects app to make the lichen look like a world globe.
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