Maligning Hedgehogs

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28 March 2017 at 13:52

OK hivemind I need answers.   

A couple of weeks ago my garden pond was chockka with frogspawn.  Most of it has vanished.  Any ideas what happened?

30 March 2017 at 09.27

Yesterday all the frogspawn had gone (we think eaten by a hedgehog).  This morning a fresh small batch has appeared.   

Wondering about putting it in a rainwaterbutt for safety until the tadpoles hatch.  Any ideas?

Woolerwoman  Has that happened before?

If you put them in a waterbutt, would the froglets then be able to get out?

Did you support the Badger Cull petition? I got a link to the debate yesterday, read the whole thing and posted the link separately but one of the pro-cull speakers said some of the most stupid things I've ever come across, including 'badgers are harmful predators destroying wildlife ‘...(including frogs and toads).!!!

Bentonbag  No but we couldn't think of anything else that might do it.   

Froglets have no problem getting out of a water butt.  Their feet seem to stick to most surfaces.  I've put a sieve over the frogspawn.

Signed the petition.  I've almost ceased being surprised at the stupidity of people.

Woolerwoman  Glad you sorted the frogspawn. The sieve will keep the badgers out.

3 April 2017 at 16:22

I may have maligned the hedgehog. 

There are tadpoles in the pond.

There is also frogspawn.

Fester thinks the first lot of frogspawn must have sunk into the stuff at the bottom of the pond.

Ms Delune  My Grandad was a fan of maligning hedgehogs, a former farmer he was adamant poor yields of milk were down to the blighters drinking it from the cow. 

Clearly the Pembrokeshire hedgehog is a larger specimen!