Our hedgehogs are back!

anyar.dris

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Our hedgehogs are back this year, after missing for the past 2 years! And we have two! 🦔🦔:yahoo:

Video 1, it went to eat the Spikes moist hedgehog food I put in the bowl. I placed it in front of the brick house we built for them last year. Not sure where they are living at the moment but we want them to have a house in our garden. Hopefully they would start living in there again.


Video 2, check out the hedgehog on the left side of the screen. It ate a live worm. :D


And here's video 3. They had 26 videos in our trail cam. They were in the garden from around quarter past 10 last night until half past 3 am. :love::love:

 
Oh wow. That’s amazing. I love wildlife. I would love to have them in my garden. I live close to some woods so I don’t suppose they would have to come into gardens as all their food would be in the woods. 😃
 
Amazing videos, I can watch hedgehogs all day long. We have poop but not seen any this year in our garden
 
Rivervixen said:
I love hedgehogs so much, more videos if you can please! Makes my day looking at them 🥰🥰 x
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I'll see what we'll get tomorrow. We move the camera tonight in a different area. We want to see where it comes from. Not sure if it goes thru under our gate. But our neighbour 2 doors down ours has seen them under her shed. Even our next door neighbour said they went in her garden as well in the past so definitely will put out food for them too.

We had 4 hedgehogs 4 years ago that roamed our garden. It was so nice seeing all of them at the same time. They sometimes even go to our doorstep to pick up the bird food droppings. I had photos of them just standing in front of me waiting for me to move away. 😁
 
This is wonderful. I haven’t seen a hedgehog for more than a decade. Gorgeous creatures ❤️
 
Gorgeous! I have been putting a wildlife camera out every night since the start of June to watch my local hogs. If you were recording them for that number of hours, chances are you are getting multiple different hogs coming and going through the night. They are big time roamers, males cover over a mile in a night. The more you get familiar with them on the camera footage, you will probably get to recognise individuals. We have one who always seems to be walking up on tiptoe, one with a particular shape that reminds me of Paddington Bear, one with a slightly crooked nose, and lots of others I'm getting to know. I was feeling the need of some hedgehog therapy this evening so I went out and stood in the best lurking spot at the usual time for the first visitor. He spent ages scoffing food I'd put out, then went round my wild front garden, then had a really long drink of the water I'd left and dived into a hedge! At the same time a smaller hog was sneaking around by the garage, but didn't come into the garden so that one won't be on camera. Hedgehogs are meant to eat slugs, but I have so much camera evidence of them ignoring slugs in my garden! Big juicy ones! Maybe they only eat them when desperate?
 
Awe lovely, I haven't seen a hedgehog in years! Used to see them all the time! I always imagine them to walk alot slower like a tortoise for some reason 😅. @Sparklepetal, I'd love to see the Paddington hedgehog and the one with the crooked nose 🐽😅. Sounds very cute 🥰
 
Sparklepetal said:
Gorgeous! I have been putting a wildlife camera out every night since the start of June to watch my local hogs. If you were recording them for that number of hours, chances are you are getting multiple different hogs coming and going through the night. They are big time roamers, males cover over a mile in a night. The more you get familiar with them on the camera footage, you will probably get to recognise individuals. We have one who always seems to be walking up on tiptoe, one with a particular shape that reminds me of Paddington Bear, one with a slightly crooked nose, and lots of others I'm getting to know. I was feeling the need of some hedgehog therapy this evening so I went out and stood in the best lurking spot at the usual time for the first visitor. He spent ages scoffing food I'd put out, then went round my wild front garden, then had a really long drink of the water I'd left and dived into a hedge! At the same time a smaller hog was sneaking around by the garage, but didn't come into the garden so that one won't be on camera. Hedgehogs are meant to eat slugs, but I have so much camera evidence of them ignoring slugs in my garden! Big juicy ones! Maybe they only eat them when desperate?
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I'm bad with distinguishing whether the wild animals are the same one or different! My neighbour told me the other day that the same squirrels go to our gardens for the past 2-3 years. I said to her I don't really know if they are the same ones, I just make it a point that they have food to eat. She said they are, by looking at the tails and the differences. I don't know how to tell! 🤣🤣

The hogs are in the garden already. One of them is bumping on our food bin! 😂 And it went to our path by the window and back door. We have bird feeders that you can stick on the window and there are seeds, fat balls and peanuts that the birds drop and the hogs are eating it. ☺

Oh and yeah, the amount of half eaten or uneaten slugs (dead slugs that have been bitten) that we always saw in the past, there were quite a few! I think with how big the slugs were, they tend to get bored of it! 🤣🤣🤣
 
We have this nightly visitor, I'm pretty sure he was the same one we had all summer last year and has about doubled in size between spring and now. I suspect he lives in the garden as he seems to start here at dusk, eats and drinks and then moves on, quite surprisingly predictable timing wise.
As we often have the patio doors open in the warm weather he's used to TV or human voices so he's fine with a bit of company, so long as you're respectful.
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That one is just taken by my wife on her phone, like I say he's fine with being photographed so long as there is food on offer.
 
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