Which British nocturnal creature most captures your imagination after dark?

Equally at home raiding bins in Hackney or stalking Yorkshire fields, the fox is Britain's most adaptable nocturnal mammal. Its eerie scream and amber eyes are unmistakable.

That classic hooting duet you hear from your bedroom window is almost certainly a pair of tawnies. They're the most widespread owl in Britain, yet rarely seen.

Emerging from ancient setts at dusk, badgers are surprisingly social creatures with complex family lives. Spotting one shuffling along a hedgerow feels like a genuine privilege.

Weighing less than a 20p coin, pipistrelles can devour 3,000 midges in a single night. Watch them flicker over ponds and gardens at sundown.

Once a familiar snuffler in every British garden, hedgehog numbers have plummeted. Leaving a gap in your fence could help save this nocturnal national treasure.