"michael adams" wrote in message
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correction: "has" for "hasn't" third time lucky maybe

"Janet Galpin" wrote in message
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When is it safe to set fire to a bonfire that's been gathering all
winter without risk of it still being a home to a hedgehog? It's rather
big to move.

Janet G

Everything below is based on the assumption that no new material
has been added to the pile since the hedgehog started
hibernating - around November maybe - which would block
its escape.

The standard advice is not before early April
depending on the weather.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

http://www.wildlifetrust.org.uk/facts/hedge.htm

However the real point maybe, is what evidence could anyone ever
produce - apart for some small bone fragments maybe - that
they hadn't incinerated dormant hedgehogs - or anything
else for that matter in a bonfire ?

The best advice would probably be to poke around into the base
with a long thin cane maybe with a tennis ball stuck on the end
at the very least.

If the bonfire is large enough, and yet not near enough to next
doors garden to set fire to that, then maybe you wouldn't
be creating too much of a nuisance by leaving a radio
next to the heap and playing very loud music for a couple
of hours before hand as well. (Not sure if this is intended
to be serious or not,)

" If the weather changes during hibernation, or the animal is
disturbed, it will wake and may move on to build a new nest."

Why was it neccessary to post this three times within a few minutes of each
other?

Alan