Not a walk so much but
Hubby went to put the dogs out to pee and just about stepped on this guy. Right by the front door. Now moved to a safe place in the neibours garden as I dont think hed appreciat being sooked by a mastiff.
What did you take a photo of on your walk today? (feat. CHUNK)
We dont usally see them, last time I saw one must have been 7-8 years ago. They are around, they just dont usally come chap on the door lol.
I have a family group of hedgehog’s living outside my house, I’ll try and remember to take pics of their set up after work but they moved in to an outdoor shelter that I put out for my cats to use, just a little wooden thing that’s been there for years which I now keep filled with straw / hay for them, and next to that they have a special wooden feeding house that I line with newspaper and put food into every evening - also a brick on top to stop the cats stealing their food.
Normally I leave them alone and just provide food and cleaning services, but yesterday I decided to check inside the house in case it needed cleaning as they’re very messy little creatures. That’s when I found out it’s actually a family group (complete with babies) rather than the lone hedgehog I thought I was looking after
In fact, if I was any animal I would want to come and live with you xxx
It’s an English series about the early life of Gerald Durrell who founded zoos and changed the way people felt about animals in captivity . He was a wonderful man and you remind me of him in his early life.
Thank you @CrackerJax, I will look out for it as it does sound like the kind of thing I would enjoy
It is - I just know that you would find the story of Gerald Durrell amazing xx
Durrell is the author of several lovely books, among them My Family and Other Animals and Birds, Beasts, and Relatives. They are well worth a read, if you can find them.
ETA: Didn’t his brother Laurence do nature shows for the Beeb?
That was actually Gerald. His brother, Lawrence, was a novelist, a bit ‘racy’ for his time and nominated for the Booker prize!
I’ve seen this bumper sticker before. I’m from Chicago area too and my in laws lived in the UP. Love going there as well as northern Wisconsin. Beautiful and so different from around here. The natives call it the yooper. I never did get that pronunciation.