In early September we spotted a mid-sized hedgehog in the garden in the afternoon so knowing he was needing to fatten up to hibernate, I started to feed him daily by leaving a dish of cat food out.
This disappeared daily but the jelly was always left in a neat pile for me to clear up. He now has a feeding station made from a plastic box to stop the food getting wet and I find myself picking all the jelly from a large tin of cat food daily for him.
I did manage to hide some hedgehog pellets in the trolley when we went to the garden centre for some bird food last weekend. Mr pda didn't notice till he came to pay for them so I got away with it:)
Yesterday we decided to spring (autumn?) clean the greenhouse and when we got under the staging, found a mouse nest and just one mouse, I think.
After a silly half an hour with a pint beer glass and a piece of cardboard Ian's patience was running thin and he told me it had escaped...I don't believe him, he set two humane mouse traps in there last night.
We also found a tiny frog who I'd like to keep in there for the winter because he eats all the slugs...we found loads of slugs eggs too.
I can't put pellets down because if the frog eats the slugs that have eaten the pellets he'll die as well.
The biggest mystery has been the bird feeder hanging on a post in the privet hedge outside of my window filled with Wren food. It's always empty but I never see the wren eating it.
I just looked at it and saw some movement...there is one mouse inside of it and one on each of the perches happily eating away! Do mice live in privet hedges?
This is despite having three very fat, very lazy cats.
Pat
modified at Pat's request
Last edited by: VxFan on Tue 16 Oct 12 at 10:04
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