Wildlife round the clock

We know that we have regular hedgehog visits at night. Both by the droppings and the amount of cat food they are taking from our hedgehog feeding station (posh title for a box with a hole in it!) As the nights are drawing in and it is now dark at bedtime, we have seen a VERY large adult and even managed a pretty crap (it was dark), grainy picture of him/her feeding a few nights ago

The in broad daylight, while we were sitting having a cuppa mid aftternoon, Husband suddenly spotted this little chap(ess) sauntering across the garden. No more than 4" long and obviously very hungry - he was foraging for froglets and whatever else he could find by the pond. Presumably a recently independant baby who clearly needed to top up his feed levels, or why would he have been out in broad daylight?

He was not in the least concerned by my presence, so I hot footed it over to the hedgehog box and grabbed the dish of food I had just refilled ready for tonight. 

He ate and he ate and he ate. You could see his belly distending as he chomped his way through a plateful of cat food. He wandered off after about 20 minutes, only to come back again 10 minutes later and finish off what he had left. He was back again at bedtime too - unless there are more than one babies about of course. Judging by the amount of food that disappeared overnight, it looks like the adult was back too.

More signs of the breeding season this morning too. We have a pair of Red Leg Partridge who use us as a buffet all year round. Today we had a visit from 4. Unsure whether this is two parents and two young or 4 youngsters. Very difficult to tell with Partridge, but whatever, it was still nice to see them