Wildlife: a cautionary tale......

[Maggi Young]

 Hello there ... all you motorists ....



I have to come this spring to ask you all to be very careful when you're on the go.



Because now it's that time of year when I'm about to learn how to get out and about



So please ... do not run over me ....



Just look how sweet I am ....



Thank you ... ........... :-*xxxxxxxx

[Maggi Young]

I have made the above post from an email sent to me from Lesley and Fermi..... we thought it was a message worth passing on about the dangers to wild critters, ably illustrated by this mega cute baby hedgehog.
Drive safely Folks!

[mark smyth]

I want that one!! please please please

[Hans J]

fantastic pics Maggi !!!

...and you are rigth with your warning !

[mark smyth]

I dont understand how people drive over hedgehogs. We wouldnt drive over a lump of stone lying in the road. I have never seen a hedgehog at night crosing the road

[Anthony Darby]

I suspect you would see that one crossing the road as it comes from warmer climes judging by the length of its ears. Really cute though. Is it a Long-eared Hedgehog (Hemiechinus auritus ).

[Ragged Robin]

Hedgehogs are so appealing and this one certainly gets the message across - anyone not up to the challenge of avoiding these lovely creatures on the road should be considered spineless!

[Anthony Darby]

A friend of mine was pulled over by a police car for swerving to avoid a cat on a roundabout. He was told he could have caused an accident. His response was to slowly look round at the road and shake his head. It was 7 a.m. and his and the panda car were the only two vehicles to be seen. The roads were deserted. He continued to shake his head as he got back into his car and drove away.

[cohan]

no hedgehogs here--precious few hedges for that matter  but we did narrowly avoid a porcupine yesterday that was just about to cross a busy highway where posted speed is 100kmh, and typical speed is more likely 120-130.. luckily this one seems to have made it, at least we didn't see his remains scattered about on the way home; some porcupines, and many deer, occasional moose, and not a few dogs and cats and others, are not so lucky.....

[PDJ]

Reminds me of my childhood.  Father on his way back from work found a dead hedgehog in the road and a litter of babies trying to get up the kerb.  He arrived home with them wrapped in his jacket and we reared them then released them in the garden.  One stayed in the garden for years but sadly one year didn't reapear after the winter.

[Lesley Cox]

Anthony, the hedgehog was sent to Fermi, but by someone with maybe Swedish text, so I can't speak for the species. This little guy certainly has bigger ears than the ones we have in NZ.

[mark smyth]

I thought it was an African Hedgehog

[Anthony Darby]

The long-eared hedgehog is found from Egypt across the Arabian peninsula eastwards.

[Gail]

Adorable pictures Maggi.  Here is an English hedgehog we rescued from the bonfire pile, another area where caution is needed.

[angie]

Maggi that pictures are so cute, I would love to have a hedgehog in my garden.
Angie