Oh help. There's a dead hedgehog in my pond.

[werdnal]

We have a "shallow end" to our pond and made a pebble beach, for any unfortunates to climb out on. Still last year we found a dead partridge and a dead rat in it - both on the same day. Not sure whether rat was chasing partridge and both fell in, or if it was trying to recover the corpse of the bird that had already drowned, and got exhausted.

We also have animal water troughs in our field and put old branches or a piece of sacking material over the sides of them, as birds like to perch on the edges and drink, and don't want any casualties there either.