Hedgehogs, 28th June 2026

Tiny enjoys digging around in the stone to find edibles, and it seems they're more enjoyable than the food in the bowl. An adult also turned up, and could smell that tiny had been in the area. I wonder if they're related and if they'll meet on camera. It's was sniffing around the wooded part of the garden since 9.30 pm on Saturday night right behind me and to my left beneath the cypress. It came out from under my lounger, had a sniff of my left foot, I felt its bristles, so it turned round and froze. It then moved off to the left and back behind me to the dark garden to sniff around. Juvenile hedgehogs emerge much earlier in an evening than adults as they have a higher relative metabolic demand thus need a lot of food, and are learning their nocturnal risk profile and the layout of their territory and to establish a map. ------------------- If you enjoy watching what I upload, please consider buying me a coffee as it helps with the captioning and editing. https://buymeacoffee.com/richardwj #hedgehog #hoglet