This week Colin Stafford-Johnson is on the trail of the hedgehog, one of our best-loved small mammals
In the third programme in this series of Living the Wildlife presenter Colin Stafford-Johnson visits Bandon in Cork where he is on the trail of one of our best-loved small mammals – the hedgehog. Everybody loves hedgehogs and Cork student Amy Haigh is no different. She loves them so much that she is working on a PhD about them. Amy takes Colin on her nightly trip on the trail of the ten hedgehogs that she has already radio tagged. They find a new hedgehog to tag and Colin’s van becomes Amy’s workstation. But what do the locals think about Amy trekking around in torchlight late at night searching for her little friends?
DJ Driscoll farms one of the fields that Amy uses for her research and he takes up Colin’s offer to learn more about hedgehogs.
What do hedgehogs eat? Colin also catches up this week with Dr. Evelyn Moorkens who is an expert on the slugs that form an important part of the hedgehog diet. Colin and Evelyn explore some woodland and Colin learns some interesting facts about slugs.
