Chatterbox - still talking nonsense

I've fed wild birds for years, and although I only rarely get more exotic visitors, I love watching the sparrows, robins, blue tits and occasional finch snacking on the offerings, the starlings squabbling between themselves, jackdaws working out how to get food out of the feeders designed to stop them, and even the doves and wood pigeons scoffing food down and bringing their growing families to visit. In 2019, after reading an article about the decline in hedgehog numbers, I decided to follow one of the 'top tips' on how to help. Physiological - Food and shelter According to the article, all that was needed was to leave out kitten food for hedgehogs during the month of October which is the main fattening up period before hibernation.  Seemed simple enough I thought, commit to one month of a bit of faff, with the benefit that I would have cute visitors dropping by in the evenings.   Three years later I realise I had no idea what I was letting myself in for.  In that f...