Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Nocturnal visitors

Spot welcomes a hedgehog to the grounds of OH. This is the first hedgehog we have seen for a very long time and it is reassuring to know they are still around in our very hedgehog friendly garden (minus canine companions).By coincidence in the Spring edition of Wild Cornwall, the magazine of Cornwall Wildlife Trust, which has only just arrived, there is a request for sightings of hedgehogs to be reported to the Cornwall mammal Group (see link). So we have reported it and in doing so learnt our OS coordinates.

3 comments:

Tara said...

Of course, I was very curious of the OS coordinates for Long Island and looked here:

http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong-gridref.html

but realize I need to be on a British island!

Then learned for latitude/longitude I am here:

40° 47' 48" N / 73° 6' 3" W

Always learning during my visit, as usual! :0)

Tara

carletta said...

Goodness, I have never seen one wild in Cornwall!!! Maybe he was sleeping nearby when we had our refreshment...Thank you both again for a memorable walk

Spot said...

hey, not to be out done these are our coordinates

Lat: 50.549842N Long: 4.319639W in Great Britain

or SX 35762 74801

our useful link was http://www.nearby.org.uk/