On Wednesday 26 March, 3H were given the responsibility of looking after a hedgehog tunnel. This is a tunnel with hedgehog food in the middle, natural ink around the food and blank paper at the ends. If a hedgehog (or any other small animal) enters the tunnel and eats the food it will leave footprints on the way out.

3H were allocated the task of checking the tunnel each morning, replacing the paper and making sure that there was food in the petri dish.

Each school day morning for a whole week they dutifully checked the tunnel …. but nothing!

In the early hours of Tuesday morning, a fox found the tunnel very interesting and scavenged bits of hedgehog food that had been dropped around the tunnel.

And then, on Wednesday morning, our tunnel monitors found these:

When we checked the trail cams this morning we found these videos of the hedgehog:

Once the hedgehog had finished feasting it went along the hedgerow and through the hedgehog highway under the fence (also a fox / badger / magpie highway!)

Our hedgehog tunnel monitors were so excited this morning!