Hi Peeps
I thought I'd share a recent "interest" of mine...
A few weeks ago, our dog ran outside, barking her head off. She rarely runs these days as she is getting on a bit. Anyway, we went outside to see what the commotion was about and sat there, in a tight little ball, was a hedgehog. Molly, our dog, must have spotted it through our patio door window and decided it needed her attention.
So, we now knew we had a hedgehog...
We did some quick research on t'internet and found that is is unusual to see a hedgehog out and about during the day time and that it must either be unwell or out looking for food while the kids are asleep. Apparently, the best thing to put down for a hedgehog is dog food, so in the evening, we put some out in a small plastic container, just on the ground outside.
The next morning the container was empty... So something had had their fill that night.
But, was it the hedgehog?
We guessed not. I suspected that magpies, crows or a rat were at it, and my missus spotted a cat licking its chops around the container too.
So, I came up with the idea to make a small enclosure which could house the container and hopefully keep at least the birds at bay.
I made the enclosure out of an unused plastic container from the shed... That was easier than knocking something up out of timber. That evening we put the food out again. In the morning, the container was licked clean again.
At this point, I decided that I wanted to know for sure what was eating that food. So I set to making a mount for our GoPro (I bought shares in one with my eldest son) and also made a bracket for a LED head torch, to provide some light.
This was the result of last night's operation:-
https://youtu.be/vrMHqF-rDL8 So now we know who is snaffling the dog food
