Night-time visitors are the BEST especially if they are hedgehogs 🦔
📷Peter Carruthers
How thirsty does this hedgehog seem? It is important now more than ever that we leave out fresh water so hedgehogs can keep hydrated in the summer months.
📷 Mandy Foster
It is amazing to look back and see what your spiky visitor gets up to at night, do you have a camera set up in your garden?
📸 Donna Randall
We are sure Peter Carruthers’ hedgehog ate all that food to themselves! Who else has a greedy hedgehog?
These look like two hungry hedgehogs! Do you have a camera in your garden to see what your spiky visitor gets up to?
📸 Hedgehog Lodge Rescue via TW
Those spiky garden visitors certainly know how to make a mess! What is the worst mess you have woken up to in your garden?
📸 Peter Carruthers
An estimated 30% of hedgehogs have disappeared over the past decade and there are now fewer than one million left in the UK 😢
Here are the main ways we can help:
🦔 Provide daily food and water in shallow bowls
🦔 Connect our gardens with hedgehog highways
🦔 Check for hedgehogs before mowing the lawn or strimming
🦔 Slow down on the roads in areas we know hedgehogs may be present
Hedgehogs are hibernators and will sleep for much of the year, waking from time to time to eat. Their bodies undergo metabolic depression during this period, which is why it's important not to disturb them.
How amazing is it to see hedgehogs roaming around your garden whilst you’re asleep?
Thank you Amazing Grace for this great video.
What an amazing video sent to us by Amazing Grace! This makes us so sad that hoglet season is over and hibernation is upon us 🦔
“Nom Nom Nom”
What a great close-up from Peter Carruthers of the hedgehog that visits his garden.
At this time of year, hedgehogs are stocking up on food ready for the colder months and preparing to hibernate, but Bonfire Night could spell danger for our garden visitors.