Old Manse Hedgehog
Our rats have now definitely gone thanks to the .22 air rifle and our new nocturnal visitors to the woodpile are two hedgehogs. One tiny and its mother(?) pictured above. Here it is browsing amongst the bird droppings dreaming of the summer which is yet to come. AS the old Chinese saw has it : 'If the hedgehog comes after the rat the dogs will remain hungry'-loose translation from the Cantonese