Last night I watched the foxes feed again, but despite sitting motionless in the dark, eyes glued to binoculars, the action was very slow and only one fox turned up. However, on the hedgehog front, it was most exciting as for the first time in a very long time (a few years) we had three hedgehogs here at once. Each was enormous. Two were dark chocolate brown, and the third, who is an infrequent visitor, is so light he almost appears white.
The fox who joined them was very bold. He fed with them and when he had cleared the lawn, he approached each hedgehog, one at a time, and took the food they were eating right out of their mouths. Such audacity! He did it with body low to the ground, head on one side flat against the grass, and with lips turned back. Slowly and gently he stole the food from their mouths.
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