A fly with what appears to be an articulating, Pelican beak, membrane-like proboscis…Well, It turns out to be another kind of Hover Fly, one that prefers to lay its eggs in cow dung where they hatch into larval form and remain until finally emerging as adult flies. There’s another photo of it on the “Garden” page. Long-John “Hoppy” the Hedgehog….Update….Permanent resident in my garden for a few years now, Long-John the Hedgehog lost an eye and a hind leg to a Fox about five summers ago when it rolled him into a neighbour’s pond to force him to open up and then tried to eat him! The neighbour saw what was happening and ran out to rescue him. I spent a few weeks getting him better and now he never wanders from my garden and lives in the log-pile where he also hibernates in the winter (the Hedgehog that is, not the neighbour). I put out  dog-food and mealworms for him three or four evenings a week and he manages to find enough to eat by himself the rest of the time.My Daughter and I have created a wildlife pond of our own in the garden this summer and I’ve made certain that there’s an adequate ramp for Long-John to be able to haul himself out after falling in…which he will inevitably manage to do!