Found in the garden
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elsie
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Found in the garden
Many years since I last saw one. It didn't want to be disturbed
Bufo bufo
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Blaze
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Lori
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Oh yes, I found a similar one when I lifted a garden tile to get to the roots of surrounding weeds. 
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MAD87
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I love toads. In house 1, we had a family which lived behind the kitchen shutters. In house 2, "he", a monster, lived in the cellar. I haven't seen one in/around this house.
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Blaze
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I found a whopper in a bag of compost at our old house. I've only seen one in the garden here.
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exile
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The Hedgehog(s) are back.
Doing the evening rounds of cleaning cat trays, topping up food dishes and ensuring that cats that want to be in are in, in our second kitchen in the grange, there was a large hog helping itself to the cats biscuits. Judging by the size, it has fared well over the winter. Initially it ignored me but as I got closer it ran off. Typical reaction from them although they have nothing to fear from us.
Doing the evening rounds of cleaning cat trays, topping up food dishes and ensuring that cats that want to be in are in, in our second kitchen in the grange, there was a large hog helping itself to the cats biscuits. Judging by the size, it has fared well over the winter. Initially it ignored me but as I got closer it ran off. Typical reaction from them although they have nothing to fear from us.
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ajm
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Not seen a hedgehog for ages. We regularly have squirrels and yesterday found a dead kestrel in the garden.
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exile
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I gather that hedgehogs are becoming more and more scarce and when we told our mayor in passing, she was very interested that they were in the commune centre.
For the last three years or so we have had them coming into the grange in the evening (and probably overnight) to help themselves to the cat biscuits, which we make sure are meat rather than fish based. We know that in the past we have had at least 3 based on their different sizes. Even if we don't see them we see the evidence. Hedgehog poo being the obvious one but they also eat the biscuits in a different way to the cats. The cats kind of lap them up and crunch them in their mouth. The hedgehogs crunch them as they enter the mouth and so we see bits of powdered biscuit in the bottom of the food dish.
For the last three years or so we have had them coming into the grange in the evening (and probably overnight) to help themselves to the cat biscuits, which we make sure are meat rather than fish based. We know that in the past we have had at least 3 based on their different sizes. Even if we don't see them we see the evidence. Hedgehog poo being the obvious one but they also eat the biscuits in a different way to the cats. The cats kind of lap them up and crunch them in their mouth. The hedgehogs crunch them as they enter the mouth and so we see bits of powdered biscuit in the bottom of the food dish.
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Blaze
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Found in the garden
An Andrena, a solitary bee that tends to nest in the ground. I'm not totally sure which one it is - there are dozens !
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