#erinaceuseuropaeus
🦔Aksu🤎 in the evening sun...
📷 10.06.2021 #TeamSintti #animals #wildlife #siili #hedgehog #ErinaceusEuropaeus #luonto #nature #kesä #summer #Suomi #Jyväskylä #Finland
#Sintti and I held a Summer Season Opening Party earlier this month with only a selected few VIP guests invited - namely Mini, Aksu and Sipe… Snacks and drinks for everyone to their heart´s desire !
Can´t remember much of the latter part of the night, but 💕Sintti 🐈and the hedgehogs assured me that it was a great party ❕ 😊
📷 10.06.2021 #TeamSintti #animals #pets #kissat #cats #kat #katt #chat #gatos #gatti #katzen #koty #коты #γάτες #pusa #Sintti #wildlife #siili #hedgehog #ErinaceusEuropaeus #luonto #nature #kesä #summer #Suomi #Jyväskylä #Finland
🍾🥂🐈🦔🤎
Business as usual here at the HQ...
📷 06.06.2021 #TeamSintti #animals #wildlife #siili #hedgehog #ErinaceusEuropaeus #luonto #nature #kesä #summer #Suomi #Jyväskylä #Finland 🦔🤎
▫Big Dude & Little Dude▫
Just chillin´ in the night with mah buddee... 😁
🦔Mini🤎 📷 10.06.2021 #TeamSintti #animals #wildlife #siili #hedgehog #ErinaceusEuropaeus #luonto #nature #kesä #summer #Suomi #Jyväskylä #Finland
▫The Boys▫
Sipe & Mini focusing on food instead of fighting 👍
📷 09.06.2021 #TeamSintti #animals #wildlife #siili #hedgehog #ErinaceusEuropaeus #luonto #nature #kesä #summer #Suomi #Jyväskylä #Finland 🦔🤎
📷 01.06.2021 #TeamSintti #animals #wildlife #siili #hedgehog #ErinaceusEuropaeus #luonto #nature #kesä #simmer #Suomi #Jyväskylä #Finland 🦔🤎
Don¨r they make a cute couple ?!?
🦔Aksu & Sipe🤎 📷 30.05.2021 #TeamSintti #animals #wildlife #siili #hedgehog #ErinaceusEuropaeus #luonto #nature #kesä #simmer #Suomi #Jyväskylä #Finland
▫The Wee Lad▫
This tiny guy is Mini, the youngest and smallest of our hedgehog visitors... very shy and reserved, mostly because he gets often attacked by a much larger male. But it´s getting better - slowly but surely !
📷 03.06.2021 #TeamSintti #animals #wildlife #siili #Mini #hedgehog #ErinaceusEuropaeus #kesä #summer #luonto #nature #Suomi #Jyväskylä #Finland 🦔🤎
📷 29.05.2021 #TeamSintti #animals #wildlife #siili #hedgehog #ErinaceusEuropaeus #luonto #nature #kesä #summer #Suomi #Jyväskylä #Finland 🦔🤎
🦔Aksu🤎
Isn´t she just the sweetest thing... 💖
🎥 29.05.2021 #TeamSintti #animals #wildlife #kesä #summer #siili #hedgehog #ErinaceusEuropaeus #Aksu #luonto #mature #Suomi #Jyväskylä #Finland 🦔
"Go right ahead, friend... the Dude´s got your dinner waiting already"
👑Queen Sintti💕 is always so gracious and kind to our little summer guests...
💕Sintti 📷28.05.2021 #TeamSintti #animals #pets #kissat #cats #kat #katt #chat #gatos #gatti #katzen #koty #коты #γάτες #pusa #Sintti #wildlife #kesä #summer #luonto #nature #siili #hedgehog #ErinaceusEuropaeus #Suomi #Jyväskylä #Finland 🦔🤎🐈
🦔Guess Who?🤎
Some of you might remember, that in August 2020 we started looking after a hedgehog I named Aukusti- or "Aksu" for short.
Aksu was very likely born quite late in the summer and I was worried about him gaining enough weight to survive the winter hibernation. When the first freezing nights came, the hedgehogs vanished to their winter nests. By then Aksu was - at best - a "close call" but I knew I had done as much as I could.
This summer when the little guys started appearing here again, it was obvious to me that at least two of them had spent their winter somewhere very close to our HQ as expected. Also, I suspected from the beginning, that one of them was our Aksu - and about two weeks ago, after enough sightings in good lighting and at a BERY close range I got my confirmation, as he had a few tell-tale signs in his physical appearance. The hedgehog you see in this post is definitely our very own Aksu.
Now then... there´s just one more teeny, tiny detail to add: it is now clear to me that #Aukusti should have been named "Augusta" !
I never checked that as it is completely irrelevant to what I do. But the "advances" made by the two other hedgehogs towards our little Lady tell a very convincing story. As a matter of fact, one of them is very likely Sipe - also from last summer - while the other male is a younger, smaller one. And gets brutalized by Sipe every single time they appear here at the same time, dammit. Luckily, all the hedgehogs now know that there is food here at all times and usually, mostly, take turns.
It´ll be fun to wait and see if Aksu and Sipe will mate this summer - I can tell you that "the mating game" is very much on at the moment !
📷 25.05.2021 #TeamSintti #animals #wildlife #kesä #summer #luonto #nature #siili #hedgehog #Aksu #ErinaceusEuropaeus #Suomi #Jyväskylä #Finland
▫2:20 AM▫
Luckily "the staff" was awake, another fresh meal served... 😊
📷26.05.2021 #TeamSintti #animals #wildlife #luonto #nature #kesä #summer #siili #hedgehog #ErinaceusEuropaeus #Suomi #Jyväskylä #Finland 🦔🤎
"HEDGEHOGS DO NOT ROAM ABOUT IN HEAVY RAIN"
Yeah, right.. 🤣
We beg to differ... provide them with a delicious meal, a dry and safe place to enjoy it and the company of a trusted friend looking after them - they´ll come RUNNING❕ 🦔🤎
🎦24.05.2021 #TeamSintti #animals #pets #kissat #cats #kat #katt #chat #gatos #gatti #katzen #koty #коты #γάτες #pusa #Sintti #wildlife #siili #hedgehog #ErinaceusEuropaeus #kesä #summer #Suomi #Jyväskylä #Finland 💙
The good life... I suppose there are as many definitions to that as there are people. As for myself, I try to be "awake" and recognize those little moments of happiness as they happen.
Now imagine sitting outside after a long, hard day in the still of the night, having your last cigarette before going to bed, sipping brandy, listening to soothing music with this little guy right next to you - "good" doesn´t even begin to cover that...
Lire is great, it is beautiful !
HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND❕
#TeamSintti #luonto #nature #wildlife #siili #hedgehog #ErinaceusEuropaeus #kevät #spring #Suomi #Jyväskylä #Finland #goodlife 🦔🤎