Sleep Mode

With the onset of winter, some animals hibernate, which means that they go into a deep, long sleep to escape the cold and conserve energy when food is short. Some of the most well-known hibernators are badgers, bats, chipmunks, dormice, frogs, hamsters, hedgehogs, skunks, snakes, turtles and bears. However, others stay active all through the winter and if you keep your eyes open for signs of animal life during your walks, you can see for yourself that not all of them disappear on the approach of cold weather. But for the rest of them, I wish sweet dreams until 2010.
Below you can see some winter-active animals I’ve recently spotted when being out.