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Hedgehogs

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Hedgehog numbers ‘in nose-dive’

Hedgehog numbers across the UK are falling, particularly in the east of the country, a survey has found.

“Don’t be too tidy in your garden,” she told BBC News. “Leave some rough areas and leave a few bushes and hedges, and twigs on the ground.

“Make sure there is plenty of stuff for them to make their nests with; leave leaves and twigs lying about, that kind of thing.”

Not sure what this says about my garden. Val and I seem to share a hedgehog. Her garden is immaculate. Maybe I’m the garden of preference for the hedgehog but it’s a good excuse to not be too tidy out there.

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