Grannymar

A Visitor

February 10, 2009 at 10:12 am · Filed under Uncategorized

It is always nice to have a visitor.

This little fellow came to see me in October 2006

I am not sure he liked my garden, he only stayed a short time

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Baino said,

February 10, 2009 at 11:16 am

OH now, he’s so cute! Clearly you don’t have enough slugs, snails, frogs or toads in your garden to feet his appetite!
Magpie11 said,

February 10, 2009 at 11:17 am

Our hedgehogs disappeared many years ago! Now all we have is urban %£**!& foxes…yes, I swore (mildly)…and I swear (less mildly) about the fools that feed them…..

Sorry, but we now have gardens ravaged by slugs and snails…. I suspect that the hedgehogs were killed off by the little blue pellets that people use without due caution!
Magpie11 said,

February 10, 2009 at 11:28 am

Reading Baino’s comment…grow some ivy snails love it to hide in
grannymar said,

February 10, 2009 at 12:16 pm

@Baino - Slugs are plentiful , but we have no snails and I have not seen a frog for years.

@Magpie - I remember seeing a very young fox in the garden once. It was so young that a cat scared it off. Our town is growing and the green fields are disappearing beneath housing estates. Yet within 2 miles in any direction we have green fields.

One side on my garden is covered with a varigated ivy, a clamatis and a japanese honeysuckle.

I am not a flower person so the garden is all shrubs.
kenju said,

February 10, 2009 at 12:38 pm

He’s cute! I haven’t seen many frogs in years, and we used to have so many that we couldn’t sleep at night for their croaking. It is said that where there are frogs - there are no snakes. I want my frogs again!!
whoopsadaisy said,

February 10, 2009 at 1:09 pm

Awwww he’s so cute!! Lucky he visited your garden and not mine Grannymar, I’d have been tempted to hognap him and keep him for a pet
Nick said,

February 10, 2009 at 1:42 pm

Perhaps he saw you heading in his direction with the hedge trimmer and he got a bit alarmed….
grannymar said,

February 10, 2009 at 2:12 pm

@Judy - Frogs were few and far between in our garden. Perhaps the Kestrel I once saw on the line pole and often see hovering in the distance, cleared the area of frogs.

@whoopsadaisy - I hope you would feed him cat food and not bread & milk like most people do!
grannymar said,

February 10, 2009 at 2:58 pm

Nick,

Sneaking in when I am distracted is dangerous! Thankfully no hedge trimmer this time.

Perhaps seeing me was enough to frighten the hedgehog.
raptureponies said,

February 10, 2009 at 5:07 pm

Awwww, so lovely!
Magpie11 said,

February 10, 2009 at 7:45 pm

Hi….don’t forget that frogs need water…to breed and hibernate (IIRC)

GM….I put the thingy in!
grannymar said,

February 10, 2009 at 7:52 pm

Magpie the thingy works!

Now lets keep the folks guessing!
steph said,

February 10, 2009 at 7:57 pm

Grannymar,

The colours in your lovely photo are enough to lift anyone’s spirit. After all the rain, fog, snow and ice of recent weeks we could really use a bit of colour right now.

Talking of foxes, I heard a funny report on the radio this morning…

An antique shop in Killarney had a novel idea to attract customers into the shop.The owner, obviously desperate for business, put a stuffed fox in the window with a sign…

“For fox’s sake come in and buy something!”
grannymar said,

February 10, 2009 at 8:12 pm

Steph,

The snow has almost gone from the garden today. We had a thick fog both yesterday and today. A day for looking inward and the little hedgehog brightened up my desktop.
Darlene said,

February 10, 2009 at 8:54 pm

Colorful background for the cute little critter. It makes a very pretty nature scene. I would like hedgehogs here — we get ground squirrels, toads, and lizards. The squirrels are cute, but the others –well, not so.
Grannymar said,

February 10, 2009 at 9:26 pm

Darlene,

I liked the colour in the photo and was using it on my desktop for a few days, then I thought I would share it.
steph said,

February 10, 2009 at 10:38 pm

I’ve guessed the thingy!

You’ve shown Magpie how to link to other people’s blogs? I noticed he wasn’t linked yesterday (on my blog) but didn’t mention it for fear of sending Magpie flying back to his nest!
Grannymar said,

February 11, 2009 at 9:02 am

Steph,

Magpie is doing well for just four days. Soon he will out do both of us!
Lottie said,

February 11, 2009 at 10:53 am

Aw he is so cute. And that’s a great photo too!
Grannymar said,

February 11, 2009 at 10:57 am

Thanks Lottie,

He was so small and I was afraid that by the time I got the camera he would have gone!

Glad I made it in time.