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If your visiting hedgehogs have disappeared into hibernation - well done! 🥰
Hedgehogs will only attempt to enter the hibernation process if they are healthy and have enough brown fat to see them though winter.
Thanks to you and your kind provisions of safe food and clean water they have reached that happy state.
Hedgehogs occasionally rise from hibernation for a top up, so please keep providing food and clean water all through the winter.
Covering the biscuits with a saucer will keep dry cat food fresh for around 3 days, before it starts losing its crunch, aroma, and nutritional quality.
Here's dear sweet Anya, who rose from her hibernation last night for a top-up snack, before going back to bed. She has been in hibernation since 1st September.
The babies she gave birth to here in June dispersed when they were old enough, but sweet Anya decided the maternity wing of the winter cabin makes a nice home, thanks very much, and has stayed.😁
Anya's history: xitter.gq/HedgehogCabin/status/2…
Darling Anya who arrived so terribly sick has responded really well to her treatments and is now in tip-top health. She is due to go home tomorrow.
Well, she was....
As you can see from my bodycam footage, Anya gave birth this morning.❤️
I'd lifted her bed box out, cleaned her pen, and was about to open the box to weigh and medicate her when I noticed the wet lid lining.
From experience I've seen birthing fluids evaporate with mum's body warmth then condensate on the lid, wetting the lining, so I went very carefully.
What we catch a quick glimpse of here is a baby she's literally just given birth to.
Hoglets are born with soft white spines, which are hidden beneath a fluid-filled layer of skin to protect the mother during birth.
This is what you see here.
Within 1 to 2 hours this protective skin shrinks and retracts, allowing the baby's white spines to break through and become visible.
From now on sweet Anya will be left hands off, undisturbed in the seclusion of her pen, allowing her to bond with her new babies in peaceful solitude.
Anya's history: xitter.gq/HedgehogCabin/status/2…
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Shall we have a #ThrowbackThursday to mud, mud glorious mud cos that's where we're heading.....
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Just checked into my hotel for the night &.... OH BOY... I've got my own bed!! *happy ears* I've also picked up my dinner, really didn't know what I wanted tonight so got chicken tenders & a corn on the cob. Looks yummy! #bearswithjobs #OnTheRoadAgain #teachingyoutosavelives
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It's October, and despite the temperatures dropping a little, our wildlife is still suffering the effects of the drought, especially in the south of the country.
It really isn't normal to see an owl using a bird bath.
But with all the ponds, streams and rivers dried up, they are desperate.
You can see how incredibly nervous this poor owl is.
But birds need to bathe to keep their feathers in a safe condition, and that goes for our nocturnal birds too.
I've never seen such a variety of animals visit my little watering station.
The situation is dire.
So please remember to keep water out, front and back, at ground level, refreshed each evening with clean tap water.
Until we are blessed with some sustained rainfall, we are making the difference between life and death for so many creatures.
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"Rabbits rabbits rabbits"
Happy October to one and all xx
PS When will it be scarf weather?
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Munro - Millions Must Go
Video mostly generated by @DonPBongwater
Spotify: Munro
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I've come to Boulder Bay to p-p-p-pick up a penguin. However they are nifty little blighters. #BoulderBay #Flynn #FlynntheBear #Penguins #SouthAfrica
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Hope you're all having a wonderful Wednesday, hump day, rump day, last day of September. Eggsy's having a mighty fine day, his September fundraiser has hit 100%.
Thank you J & Anon for getting us to the finishing post xx
And thank you to all who have contributed, so grateful xx
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This is dear little Owen right now, this afternoon, still eating little and often, just the way a patient recovering from starvation should.
I'm so pleased to say he has survived all his antiparasitic treatments, and will have his last injection tomorrow.
But better still - out of the blue his finder called!
I had no way of contacting him, as he was working when he brought Owen in and was in such a rush he didn't leave his details, so I was delighted that he rang.
Paul actually lives in Northamptonshire - a very long way from where I am in Hampshire. But he said he would make the trip down to pick up Owen when he is recovered, and give him a home in his garden that is open to countryside, and where other hedgehogs regularly visit and are fed and watered year round.
I am so happy that this dear brave boy, once starving and so gravely ill, will now have a happy home!
He needs a couple more weeks of recovery time here, to build up his strength, but his outlook is bright.😊
Owen's history: xitter.gq/HedgehogCabin/status/2…
🔊This poor boy is Owen.
Owen's finder is a delivery driver.
Driving along a busy highway he noticed traffic ahead of him diverting and swerving around something in the road, so he slowed.
He saw Owen, thought he was dead, then saw what the other drivers must have seen - this poor darling flinching each time another bird came down to peck at him.
Thankfully this busy delivery driver's heart was full of compassion and he stopped, scooped poor Owen up off the road, wrapped him in some bubble wrap and brought him straight here.
If not for the kindness of this man, Owen would have suffered an agonising, terrifying death.
I'm so grateful for his act of mercy.
As you can hear, the poor darling is in acute respiratory distress, struggling for every breath, so his prognosis is still poor.
But for now he is safe, warm, free from fear, and having every medication possible to help him overcome this lung infection (secondary to parasite invasion).
Seriously ill hedgehogs suffer from hypothermia.
This is a stage of dying where the blood is redirected to the vital organs, to keep them supplied with oxygen for as long as possible, leaving the rest of the body feeling cold.
So the hedgehog seeks warmth.
Tarmac and paving holds the sun's heat longer than soil or grass, so these poor animals often drag themselves onto a road, for the residue heat the surface retains.
Please remember this, and if you see a hedgehog in the road who isn't obviously dead, pull over and check, when it's safe to do so.
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Happy Michaelmas Day my friends xx
Today In Eggsy's Diary he's remembering our old mate Hansel the Goose (very much not a Michaelmas goose) and musing on Michaelmas folklore / weather lore click the link below to have a little read:
ko-fi.com/post/On-Michaelmas…
