Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Hedgehog in its nest in Tuntorp.jpg

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File:Hedgehog in its nest in Tuntorp.jpg[edit]

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Sorry, no other angle available. Hedgehogs often live and hibernate in piles of leaves, branches and grass in gardens here in Sweden. This may look like an open place, but it was not. The nest was like a small "cave" in the heap of leaves and grass under a bush. It had a narrow short tunnel as an entrance to it, just wide enough for me to fit the lens into it. There was enough light filtering in through the branches above for a couple of photos, I was very lucky to get as much of its face as I did. Naturally, I wasn't about to stick in my hand and rearrange the nest to get an unblocked angle, even though the nest was only one meter from my mailbox, and the pathway with lots of people going by. Like I said, they are used to us humans, but rearranging their nests for a photo op is absolutely not ok. Many people here build nest boxes for hedgehogs, and sometimes they place cameras in them to monitor the activity in the nest. --Cart (talk) 11:56, 26 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
There are very cute hedgehogs in Sweden, and in Ukraine too (this last one by George Chernilevsky could become an FP) -- Basile Morin (talk) 12:20, 26 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oh yes there are, and they are so cute! But I haven't seen that many of them in their nests here on Commons, and that's what this nom is about. That is why I took this photo and not while it was out strolling in the open. We have no FPs of mammal nests at all. --Cart (talk) 12:38, 26 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Not a FP for me, but clearly a useful image. Thanks for the upload -- Basile Morin (talk) 13:39, 26 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]