The perfect holiday for Bertie! I may just volunteer his services as hedgehog exterminator supreme.

ISLAND HEDGEHOGS MAY FACE CULLING
Thousands of hedgehogs in the Scottish islands may face a cull, it was confirmed today.
Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) confirmed it was considering carrying out a cull of hedgehogs, which have destroyed nests of native wild birds in the Western Isles.
Environmental experts claim that North Uist, Benbecula and South Uist support important populations of breeding wader birds including dunlin, ringed plover, redshank, snipe, lapwing and oystercatcher.
However, the population of birds is at risk from the growing number of hedgehogs.
Hedgehogs were introduced to the Uists when a homeowner brought four in 1974 and a further three a year later to control garden pests.
There are now thought to be more than 5,000 hedgehogs on the islands.
In a report, SNH disclosed that surveys in 1995 and 2000 found ‘significant decreases by all species except oystercatcher’ and that six years of research has proved that declines in dunlin, redshank, snipe and lapwing were ‘due to high levels of egg predation by hedgehogs’.
Between 1995 and 2002 on South Uist and Benbecula, snipe, dunlin and ringed plover numbers declined by almost 60%, redshank by 40% and lapwing by 30%.
An SNH spokesman said: “It’s not something we would choose to do – it is something of a last resort.
“People who are fundamentalist animal rights people are going to find this horrific – and we understand that.
“But we are already controlling mink in the Western Isles and I would say that we have not had a response about them.
“These are animals that were written about by Beatrix Potter – people superficially might find that it is difficult to comprehend.
“It’s the cuteness factor, there will be people out there who will object to a hedgehog cull purely because they are cute, and not about the mink or crows which are controlled.
“We are quite keen to do something to stop the bird numbers declining as they are – we like hedgehogs too, but on the mainland, where they belong.”
The SNH spokesman said that a decision would be taken by the SNH board at its next meeting near Perth on Tuesday.
Other options include sterilisation or contraception to control hedgehog numbers, and removing them to the mainland.
The spokesman insisted that reintroduced hedgehogs would find it difficult to adapt to territories on the mainland.
He added: “The hedgehogs would be very stressed by that, they are very territorial animals and there are already local hedgehogs on the mainland.
”We feel that quite a lot of hedgehogs would end up dead, so we feel the least cruel thing would be a cull.
“The board will decide on Tuesday whether to go ahead with the cull or not.”
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