Readers' Pictures: Fox and hedgehog just lap it up - with video

While watching the wildlife in her garden, Sue Massey often sees hedgehogs and foxes – but they do not usually show up together.

Sue, 60, was taking a video of a hedgehog lapping from a bowl in her garden in Evington, Leicester, when a fox decided to join in.

She said: "I'd never seen anything like it before.

"We've got a lovely window for looking out at the garden and foxes and hedgehogs come regularly, but I nearly fell off my chair when I saw this.

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"The hedgehog was there first and was just drinking away when the fox came along. There was no animosity and the hedgehog didn't seem fazed.

"After a while, the fox just seemed to give up and wander off."

We're asking our readers to send in the very best of their garden photographs so that we can share them in the paper and on our website.

Dozens of pictures have been flooding in, including a great shot of a rare waxwing, taken by reader Simon DeVoss.

Simon, 44, of Thurmaston, said: "The waxwings come down from Estonia and other northern places and this year there haven't been many of them at all.

"It's because it's been a bad year for berries and the birds have mostly gone to France instead. But there have been some in the UK and I've been chasing birds all over Loughborough, Cosby and Mountsorrel.

"Then I heard there were some in Thurmaston near a factory. I'd been really eager to photograph them and a bit later I got this picture of one of the waxwings against the blue sky."

Other shots include Pamela Dargie's picture of two finches pecking away at the feeder in her garden in Mountsorrel, Phil Rowe's photo of bird footprints taken in his neighbour's back garden in Knighton Fields, Leicester, and Amanda Jaynes's picture of a great tit in her garden in Bitteswell, near Lutterworth.

E-mail pictures of the wildlife in your garden to:

picturedesk@leicester mercury.co.uk

Add your name, where you live and your contact details.