can you let me know if you see a hedgehog? ta
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as per the title really......getting to the time when we should let grumble back into the wild, but not sure if they're up and about yet in general - so if anyone could post if they see one out and about then I'll feel more confident enough buglife has also surfaced to keep her fed
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Yep, our residentual snail and slug muncher has risen from its winter slumber. Earlier than expected, due to the cold nights we have experianced.
It also managed to avoid my mum with a garden fork last week
, only by a couple of inches tho.
New garage forces changes to the garden, we have also seen a frog hopping about as well.
This is ooop North roughly 15 miles from Preston if it helps.
It also managed to avoid my mum with a garden fork last week
, only by a couple of inches tho.New garage forces changes to the garden, we have also seen a frog hopping about as well.
This is ooop North roughly 15 miles from Preston if it helps.
sunbeam alpine said:
Nightmare said:
...wonder if i should tag her...hmm
I wouldn't bother - the paint doesn't stick well to the spines 
a bushpug graffiti project beckons methinks!Hannah, yeah she was indeed a rescued underweight (http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=208&t=934744&nmt=seem%20to%20have%20gained%20a%20hedgehog&mid=437) but is now around 500g and not really going anywhere weight-wise. doubt she'll get much larger till she's off on her own. (but wont thrown her out for a few weeks yet)
Im sure she was a late summer litter - seems to have little trouble foraging around her extended fort, but have a sort of plan anyway. few weeks back attached the outside hedgehog house to the cardboard fort and moved the shoebox she's nesting in into said hedgehog house. She seems quite happy with this transition, so the next stage will be to move her plus fort outside and cut holes in fort so she can leave entirely....but also knowing where her existing home is (rather than just dumping her outside the back door i guess!) Will continue to put out food for a while and keep a vague eye out.....
fingers will be crossed
We are in Northampton and we have 2 in our garden currently using our feeding stations. We are also overwintering 2 underweights, one of those is at 680g now and is out of hibernation, the other is still sound asleep. Once you give the hog an open gate i doubt she will return to her temporary home, you need to make sure the night time temp will be ok for at least 4 nights to let it find and make a warm home. Keep putting food out (we keep our feeders full of peanuts). We have been overwintering for 3 years now and do mark them with a small amount of paint on a couple of spines, too much paint makes them easier to find by predetors (badgers). We were lucky enough to have one of our 1st year underweights return to our garden later in the year and have her litter in a compost bin. These were also overwintered as they were late in the year and 0nly around 160g in late September. It is very rewarding to see them go back into the wild and even more so to see them later in the year going about their business......Martin
Mobile Chicane said:
I wish.
I haven't seen a hedgehog in years.
Irony is, there are plenty of slugs in the garden, it's 9 acres of land with no chemicals used, plus it's away from a road.
Anyone know of places which offer hedgehogs in need of some R&R?
Might be worth talking to these people:I haven't seen a hedgehog in years.
Irony is, there are plenty of slugs in the garden, it's 9 acres of land with no chemicals used, plus it's away from a road.
Anyone know of places which offer hedgehogs in need of some R&R?
http://www.sttiggywinkles.org.uk/
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