Garden Wildlife

Prickly or Cuddly? As if hedgehogs fluffy like exterior and sweet, tiny faces were not enough to melt the hearts of many a nature lover – Did you know a baby hedgehog is called a Hoglet? We can hear the collective sound of ‘aaahhhhhh’ from the Ivel Valley offices. They get their names from the fact […]

Baby hedgehogs are called hoglets. They have poor eyesight, but an excellent sense of smell and hearing, which makes them ideal nocturnal animals. Each hedgehog has over 5,000 spines on their body — they last around a year before falling off and regrowing. There are 17 different species of hedgehog but the UK only has […]

I am sure that many will have seen on TV the spectacular and hypnotic flying displays made by starlings about to go to their winter roosting sites. Lucky ones among us will have seen it in real life – good sites are spread across the country from the Somerset reed-beds to coastal piers and there […]