A Welcome Visitor.

Hedgehog.   Photo. John Elliott

 For much of the nearly half a century that I have lived in Martinstown Hedgehogs were frequent, almost nightly, visitors to my garden. On one memorable occasion I had to rescue one from the attentions of a Badger that was trying to unroll it. Over the last decade they have occured less and less so it has been a great pleasure to see one pottering around the back garden in the late afternoon recently. They are usually considered to be a nocturnal animal but this one doesn't seem to mind coming out well before dusk.