This photo of kevinrtaylor is one of my favourites. It was taken a month ago by our friend Leo Eckenrode who was visiting from the US. It was taken at Sunningdale Carnival where Kevin and I volunteered at the Harper Asprey Wildlife Rescue booth for the morning shift. This is a cause we both believe in and we hope to make their dream of having a wildlife ( Read more... )

I have decided that since we have a rather large garden, instead of just putting in a hedgehog house, we are willing to build a shelter to overwinter several rehabilitated hedgehogs at a time until they can be released ( Read more... )

kevinrtaylor bought enough plywood today to make the hedgehog house for our garden. :-D

As you know, Harper Asprey rehabs all sorts of wild animals. If people bring them in or call us about them, then we rehab them or see if they can be returned to the wild immediately (sometimes people bring in baby animals that aren't injured and shouldn't have been removed but the parents aren't near. Most times the parents will come back for them ( Read more... )

Had an interesting conversation with my dentist, of all people. He’s from the Czech Republic, but he has lived here for quite some time, and his English is mostly excellent ( Read more... )

OMFREAKINGG!

Re: My last post about ancestry:

The city's German name, Iglau, is derived from the German word for hedgehog, Igel, hence the hedgehog on the coat of arms.

My freaking grandfather was born in a place where the hedgehog was on the coat of arms?

This is too damned funny!

I need to ask Anne when we might expect to release the hedgehogs in the garden so Kevin can get the hedgehog house made. We don’t need to have a hedgehog house, but it certainly does give the little guys a better chance and we will need to figure out where to situate it in the garden and then we will cover it with leaves and other garden debris ( Read more... )

Well, at least something makes me happy today as I can honestly say this hasn't been one of my *best* days ( Read more... )

I want me a hedgehog stamp, right now!!! :-D

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2010/apr/13/royal-mail-stamps-uk-mammals

The other stamps in the series are SO CUTE too!!!!! :-D

As you know, I love hedgehogs. Love, love, love them. When I was planning on moving here I was excited because I thought I would get to see several. I haven't. Ever. I think our garden is an unsafe place for them because of the foxes, although I heard them snorting around in the back one evening. I think they were passing through. They cover a ( Read more... )