[Misc] Hedgehogs

[PeterT]

A hedgehog has started visiting us in a suburban street in Hove, can’t remember the last time I saw one other than in the countryside. There are a couple of parks etc nearby but not sure where he lives.

We have some gaps in the fence he can get through and we’ve now been leaving food out which he seems to enjoy, put a cheap camera on the food to check it’s him eating it, and it is, though not sure what we’ll do about that when we are on holiday in the summer.

Anyway, I thought it was a really nice thing to see. Our garden is FULL of snails and slugs, hopefully he eats them as I can’t now put down the slug pellets which I understand aren’t great for the hedgehog.

 

[Is it PotG?]

Cat food, and don't give them milk......that's all I know.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Cat food, and don't give them milk......that's all I know.

Or bread. As you say tinned cat or dog food with a bowl of water.

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

A hedgehog has started visiting us in a suburban street in Hove, can’t remember the last time I saw one other than in the countryside. There are a couple of parks etc nearby but not sure where he lives.

We have some gaps in the fence he can get through and we’ve now been leaving food out which he seems to enjoy, put a cheap camera on the food to check it’s him eating it, and it is, though not sure what we’ll do about that when we are on holiday in the summer.

Anyway, I thought it was a really nice thing to see. Our garden is FULL of snails and slugs, hopefully he eats them as I can’t now put down the slug pellets which I understand aren’t great for the hedgehog.

 

[PascalGroß Tips]

Friends of ours have a couple of hogs that visit them each year. They built a little 'hut' so that the hogs can come and feed (cat food) and be protected from foxes (a family of foxes have a route through their garden). There's an entrance in the hut which the hogs can use to come and go as they please.

 

[Brovion]

Why can't they just share the hedge?

 

[Weststander]

We have had them in the past, but not for ages. When I put in a new fence with new gravel boards, I cut out a couple of holes for these.
https://www.bing.com/shop?q=hedgehog+hole+£&FORM=SHOPTB

A reminder to me that I need to do the same on the side gate.

 

[Albion 71]

A hedgehog has started visiting us in a suburban street in Hove, can’t remember the last time I saw one other than in the countryside. There are a couple of parks etc nearby but not sure where he lives.

We have some gaps in the fence he can get through and we’ve now been leaving food out which he seems to enjoy, put a cheap camera on the food to check it’s him eating it, and it is, though not sure what we’ll do about that when we are on holiday in the summer.

Anyway, I thought it was a really nice thing to see. Our garden is FULL of snails and slugs, hopefully he eats them as I can’t now put down the slug pellets which I understand aren’t great for the hedgehog.

These people are brilliant for info/support and on twitter etc...

Hedgehog Cabin

Open 8am to 5pm every day by appointment only A MASK MUST BE WORN 01252 845065 For non-emergencies hedgehogcabin@talktalk.net

hedgehogcabin.info

Also believe there is a local hedgehog group in Hangleton?

 

[Poyningsgull]

I know when a hedgehog appears in our garden because the dogs go crackers barking at it and I have bring them in so he can scurry off.

 

[Jasetheaceisback]

It can be an expensive but worthwhile business. We constantly have 2-3 in residence here in Mid Sussex. We have built 3 houses, one of which is exclusively for the food we put down (put a rock on top to keep the foxes away). Plenty of hay required too. Two summers ago one of them gave birth to six youngsters and allowed them to come out whilst we sat in the garden. She watched on from the doorway of one of the houses. One of those take your breath away moments!

Sadly, it is wrong to assume that the same hogs return each year...

 

[Coldeanseagull]

We have five regular piggies that visit, along with seven foxes....often they are at the same bowl, but foxys very wary and tend to wait their turn! Can't leave bowls unattended, as there seems to be an influx of rodents this year, plus magpies, crows, wood pigeons and opportunistic gulls.
I just wished they'd wait until after dark to feed as it'll keep the bird life away

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

I do lve a hedgehog, we live next to some woods, and used to see them wandering across our garden quite often in years gone by. Recently though their visits have become very rare for some reason.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Not hedgehogs but I purchasd and installed a squirrel feeder when I lived in Hove. It was about 2 to 3 feett off the ground on a wall. It had a platform and a perspex front, and a wooden lid, to the nut store. The squirrels would jump onto the plaform, lift the lid and grab some nuts. One gang of squirrels had a friend who was not as able and could not get onto the platform, so they would bring nuts to him.

I often saw dozy seagulls on the platform, banging their beak on the perspex, to try and get the nuts.

I miss the squirrels.

 

[AmexRuislip]

A hedgehog has started visiting us in a suburban street in Hove, can’t remember the last time I saw one other than in the countryside. There are a couple of parks etc nearby but not sure where he lives.

The way your describing the hedgehog, suggests they may be one of those door 2 door sales persons

 

[BBassic]

We've got a hedgehog or two that wander through our garden.

When the storms a couple of years ago brought down a couple of fence panels on both sides we had the new ones put up with a hole cut into the bottom.

Dubbed it the Hedgehog Highway.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Not hedgehogs but I purchasd and installed a squirrel feeder when I lived in Hove. It was about 2 to 3 feett off the ground on a wall. It had a platform and a perspex front, and a wooden lid, to the nut store. The squirrels would jump onto the plaform, lift the lid and grab some nuts. One gang of squirrels had a friend who was not as able and could not get onto the platform, so they would bring nuts to him.

I often saw dozy seagulls on the platform, banging their beak on the perspex, to try and get the nuts.

I miss the squirrels.

Damn good blokes squirrels, the red ones anyway.

 

[MJsGhost]

I haven't seen our visitors for a while, but I know they are still around due to the evidence they leave behind.

They can sh|t in my garden as much as they like - as long as they eat their fill of slugs and snails

 

[birthofanorange]

Why can't they just share the hedge?

Sheer quillity.

 

[Albion my Albion]

 

[The Clamp]

A hedgehog has started visiting us in a suburban street in Hove, can’t remember the last time I saw one other than in the countryside. There are a couple of parks etc nearby but not sure where he lives.

We have some gaps in the fence he can get through and we’ve now been leaving food out which he seems to enjoy, put a cheap camera on the food to check it’s him eating it, and it is, though not sure what we’ll do about that when we are on holiday in the summer.

Anyway, I thought it was a really nice thing to see. Our garden is FULL of snails and slugs, hopefully he eats them as I can’t now put down the slug pellets which I understand aren’t great for the hedgehog.

How lovely. Hedgehogs are wonderful creatures.
Bet you get some good camera footage?