A smile to start your weekend.😍 Hedgehogs have survived, unchanged, for 15 million years. 15 million years! Just think - our humble little garden visitors once walked with woolly mammoths and sabre-toothed tigers. They survived so well because they are resourceful, adaptable, courageous and problem-solving. Just look at how this clever boy solves the problem of the feeder being bricked up. You wouldn't expect that level of intelligence from a humble little hedgehog, would you?😊 The fact our hedgehogs are on the brink of extinction now, despite surviving persecution, drought, famine, and the ice age, is a serious indicator of how just how profoundly endangered our fragile ecosystem has become. Please do what you can to help these gentle, clever little animals. While hedgehogs who are healthy and well nourished will have hibernated now, those who are sickly or underweight are still around, desperately searching for a kind garden that provides. Please leave out a dish of fresh clean water each evening, by your back and front door. A dish of dry kitten food kept safe inside a feeder would be a life saver.(Please see hedgehogcabin.info/making-a-… for how to make one). Remember to leave the leaves where they fall, and keep the edges of your garden and at least one corner uncut and undisturbed all winter, to allow natural food to safely live and grow.

When it's just that bit too cold to get out of bed to eat breakfast.😋