Where are all the hedgehogs?
I have posted quite a few hedgehog posts. This is perhaps as they are frequent garden visitors/residents. Or were, it seems. So far in 2018 I have not seen a…
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What is happening to our hedgehogs?
Fortunately hedgehogs continue to visit my own garden… difficult to estimate as I have not perhaps been there as much after dark compared to last year, but certainly a presence.…
From RSPB Nature’s Home – 5 ways to help hedgehogs right now
The official first day of summer, and in my part of the world it is living up to its billing. The year shuffles smoothly on, and growth and greenness reign.…
Extinct in Ireland: September 1st, the sturgeon
I’ve been reading Pádraic Fogarty’s “Whittled Away: Ireland’s Vanishing Nature”. It’s a sobering read, puncturing the fond illusion that many Irish have that their homeland is some kind of environmental paradise,…
“Green Fire – Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic For Our Time”
Aldo Leopold died of a heart attack while battling a fire on a neighbour’s property on April 21, 1948. He is one of those literary figures better known and much…
Fifty Ways to Build a Hedgehog House
Well, not quite fifty – but there is a range of methods seen in these YouTube videos on the apparently simple project of how to build a hedgehog house. Sometimes one…
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