Over the last week or so, we have been finding small, cylindrical, black droppings which look to me to be hedgehog droppings. The picuture below shows three examples.
Hedgehog droppings |
Hedgehog trail |
These two pieces of evidence made me decide to put out my trail camera, a Spypoint IR-8. The following morning amongst the recordings of grasses moving in the breeze was the clip shown below.
Yes, a full-grown hedgehog going about its business and probably sleeping in the hedge bottom during the day. Now to set up a better camera position to see if I can capture some more images.
How cool is that. I haven't seen a hedgehog for a while
ReplyDeleteChris - they are becoming more rare, but the droppings are distinctive and if you have a trail cam ... ...
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