A Hedgehog feeding in our garden from last year

I’m very pleased to say the hedgehogs are back. After seeing them around all last summer, in and out of the garden each night snuffling about and grunting at each other.

We had four different ones, one being a large male my husband did not realize they got so big until one night he heard a lot of noise going on outside and went to investigate only to find two hedgehogs one a lot larger than the other, the male must have come around for a mate.

We saw a couple of young ones quite late in the year; I do hope they survived the winter.

With all the flooding we had during the winter I was getting worried they that might have been flooded out during hibernation, but they are back again. So I’m back feeding them every night with hedgehog food I get from our local garden center, I don’t use cat food partly because I know our cats will eat it but they don’t seem to eat the hedgehog food.

I will try and get some more pictures this year.

We have a little family of hedgehogs coming and going, I have a thing about hedgehogs I think its from about 11 years ago we hand reared one from very tiny to a size big enough to hibernate, and the following spring when I saw another one I went to look to see if he was alright in his hutch that we’d let him hibernate in, and to my surprise there were two in the old hutch! 

Ok this is good. 

The Hedgehog that comes in most evenings

One night thought I might get another shot of our little visitor feeding under our garden table were I put his food to keep it dry, I didn’t notice chivers our cat on the chair watching the hedgehog until I saw the pictures on the computer.

I don’t put cat food down for the hedgehogs’ as the cats will have it I have found special hedgehog food at our local garden center, which they certainly seem to enjoy.

The cats don’t seem to bother the hedgehogs I think their only predators are badgers and man of course.