We're so very excited that our outdoor camera finally captured a hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus, a protected species) in our yard! This is brilliant news - we'd been finding scat that we'd had confirmed as hedgehog, but ... seeing is believing
We'd put a covered feed station outside, with a narrow maze of bricks threading inside it to deter cats. The food has been disappearing for the past 4 nights, but this is the first camera capture!
We've also been placing shallow basins of water outside for it because of the current drought.
Woohoo!
The way it stretches and contracts its body makes me think of a leech's movements!
These nocturnal omnivores are often killed on roads as they forage and are also declining in numbers through habitat loss.
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