7 Replies to “Saturday cartoon – by Ralph Underhill”
They are the common prey of Eagle owls in the UK as well as Golden Eagle and Badgers.
#Mr Miles
and your point is?
Yes, here Cardiff we have a real problem with all those eagle owls and golden eagles swooping down into parks and people’s gardens preying on hedgehogs. Don’t get me started on the hordes of badgers roaming the streets of the city, eating all the hedgehogs that have escaped the talons of the other too. So much of a problem is it that people are making their gardens as hedgehog unfriendly as possible what with the slug pellets, decking, lack of connectivity and so forth. Its the only way to deter hedgehogs and therefore all those eagles and owls that are flying about; last thing people want is Tiddles disappearing in the talons of those common eagle owls.
Luckily I’ve seen two hedgehogs this month – they showed well for a few day as convenient smears on the road so a lot of people were able to connect with them.
John, I thought eagle owls and golden eagles commonly took lambs, cats, small dogs or babies from prams…depending on which alarmist stories you choose to read. 😉
It’s the Wicker Man: hedgehog version…..
Bonfires are pointless.
I understand the odd gardener or farmer wanting to burn a few dead/diseased plants or crop waste once a year – on a small scale if they cannot recycle it, but otherwise bonfires are pointless.
Ban them. And the pointless ridiculously noisy littering rockets too.
There are no laws in place that say your neighbour can’t have a 15 ft high inferno in the back garden directly under trees and only a matter of feet away from houses. They are only breaking the law, if they have ‘frequent bonfires’. Which is of course also ridiculous.
As for the wildlife one can only hope that the poor Hedgehogs will eventually evolve to instinctively stay clear of bonfires but then there is no difference between a wildlife log pile and a bonfire to them. It’s a terrible situation year on year for such declining wildlife.
The chances of bonfires being banned all together are slim. The chances of people using their brains and councils enforcing stricter laws on building the things smaller & hours before lighting, rather than days or weeks, are even slimmer.
I never liked them even when I was young Jan so I agree completely. We must be the only country in the world that celebrates failure too, when you think about it.
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They are the common prey of Eagle owls in the UK as well as Golden Eagle and Badgers.
#Mr Miles
and your point is?
Yes, here Cardiff we have a real problem with all those eagle owls and golden eagles swooping down into parks and people’s gardens preying on hedgehogs. Don’t get me started on the hordes of badgers roaming the streets of the city, eating all the hedgehogs that have escaped the talons of the other too. So much of a problem is it that people are making their gardens as hedgehog unfriendly as possible what with the slug pellets, decking, lack of connectivity and so forth. Its the only way to deter hedgehogs and therefore all those eagles and owls that are flying about; last thing people want is Tiddles disappearing in the talons of those common eagle owls.
Luckily I’ve seen two hedgehogs this month – they showed well for a few day as convenient smears on the road so a lot of people were able to connect with them.
John, I thought eagle owls and golden eagles commonly took lambs, cats, small dogs or babies from prams…depending on which alarmist stories you choose to read. 😉
It’s the Wicker Man: hedgehog version…..
Bonfires are pointless.
I understand the odd gardener or farmer wanting to burn a few dead/diseased plants or crop waste once a year – on a small scale if they cannot recycle it, but otherwise bonfires are pointless.
Ban them. And the pointless ridiculously noisy littering rockets too.
There are no laws in place that say your neighbour can’t have a 15 ft high inferno in the back garden directly under trees and only a matter of feet away from houses. They are only breaking the law, if they have ‘frequent bonfires’. Which is of course also ridiculous.
As for the wildlife one can only hope that the poor Hedgehogs will eventually evolve to instinctively stay clear of bonfires but then there is no difference between a wildlife log pile and a bonfire to them. It’s a terrible situation year on year for such declining wildlife.
The chances of bonfires being banned all together are slim. The chances of people using their brains and councils enforcing stricter laws on building the things smaller & hours before lighting, rather than days or weeks, are even slimmer.
I never liked them even when I was young Jan so I agree completely. We must be the only country in the world that celebrates failure too, when you think about it.