Post by Psamathe on May 31, 2021 9:38:35 GMT
Neighbour's garden had been nicely overgrown for years but a month or so ago the diggers came in and "scorched earth" the entire site - since then I've not recorded a single hedgehog (previously Trailcam would record them most nights).
What saddens me beyond the missing hedgehogs is how so many people from towns hanker for living in countryside yet when they buy "their country mansion" take no interest in learning about wildlife or preserving anything, just strive to turn it into another city dwelling (concrete and paving slabbed). This neighbour is particularly bad, when he moved in he cut down a large bush in early autumn and left it in a pile into feb (ideal hedgehog hibernation); I mentioned that before doing anything (he's a "pyromanic") to move it to allow everything living to escape but 2 days later petrol and match and it was suddenly flames. We used to have privet haw moths (I only saw them in caterpillar form on the privet bushes) but he doesn't like the dark so leaves outside lights on illuminating their back garden often all night and not had those for years now. etc.
What is the appeal of the countryside when such people do get to move there they ignore what makes countryside the countryside and just damage it turning it back into their little city dwelling!
(Sorry for rant)
Ian
What saddens me beyond the missing hedgehogs is how so many people from towns hanker for living in countryside yet when they buy "their country mansion" take no interest in learning about wildlife or preserving anything, just strive to turn it into another city dwelling (concrete and paving slabbed). This neighbour is particularly bad, when he moved in he cut down a large bush in early autumn and left it in a pile into feb (ideal hedgehog hibernation); I mentioned that before doing anything (he's a "pyromanic") to move it to allow everything living to escape but 2 days later petrol and match and it was suddenly flames. We used to have privet haw moths (I only saw them in caterpillar form on the privet bushes) but he doesn't like the dark so leaves outside lights on illuminating their back garden often all night and not had those for years now. etc.
What is the appeal of the countryside when such people do get to move there they ignore what makes countryside the countryside and just damage it turning it back into their little city dwelling!
(Sorry for rant)
Ian
much giggling. Of course if they had a brain cell between them a quick look through the grass would have been in order, NO another frog got shredded.