Hedgehog lemmings

Took a wander up Kinnoull Hill, primarily to see the peregrines that nest in the cliffs below the summit. We got some good views of them and a couple of "memento" photos, but certainly nothing worth blipping. There are various chain saw carvings spread around the hill and these hedgehogs are one that we've not come across before. They are carved by Pete Bowsher, the Scottish Open Chain Saw Carving Champion from old tree stumps that would otherwise be expensive to remove.

These particular hedgehogs seem to have some lemming genes in them as they march to the their death off the end of the log, however that in itself is a false myth that was perpetuated by Disney's 1958 film White Wilderness, which won an Academy Award for Documentary Feature, in which staged footage was shown with lemmings jumping into sure death after faked scenes of mass migration. A Canadian Broadcasting Corporation documentary, Cruel Camera, found that the lemmings used for White Wilderness were flown from Hudson Bay to Calgary, where they did not jump off the cliff, but in fact were launched off the cliff using a turntable.