Your Garden Hedgehogs

[Willpar]

Numbers here have been falling. So will take a couple of feeders out of action until it picks up again. Can happen this time of year and pick up again August sometime. Plenty of cats about though, looking through the videos each morning. They out number the hedgehogs.

[Placido]

My hedgie feeding is as naught compared to the industrial scale of Willpar and JooMoo but the bowl is still licked clean each morning.

[JooMoo]

I'm not up late past dark at this time of year - I hate it being light so late - and I've put the feeder on the grass whereby the hogs turn into ninja stealth hogs. So it seem like I don't get much hog activity at the moment. Although all food seems to be gone in rapid time.

[JooMoo]

I've spotted 2 hogs with really bright stripes on their backs. I've not painted any for a good while.
I went out the other night when I saw one with a half back stripe. It really shows up on the camera, but looking at it in torch light, it's not paint at all, more of a case of slightly damaged spines. In fact it was hard to tell what it was under torch light as it was barely visible.

[JooMoo]

My hog numbers seem to be right down. The one I mentioned previously is the regular visitor and it seems like it's only him coming.
Just now, though, I saw 3 on the camera, so I went for a nosey. Reg (the regular) was there and after I'd disturbed them and they went off, I could see that Reg seemed to have a really bright white mark on his lower rump. I went out and had a close up look, thinking it was paint, but on close-up, I couldn't see what it was. Again, I think it's damaged spines. It was really bright from a distance. Very weird.

[JooMoo]

Two of them returned rather quickly. They know where to fill their bellies up.
One's male, the other female (don't know which is which). They were doing the "kiss dance'. The smaller would step forward, touch the other's nose, then step back, huffing and puffing.
So I went out to hassle them with my camera

You can see what I mean about the marks. Again, I took a good look and I just cannot see why it stands out so much.

[Willpar]

Nice picture joomoo. Going by my night cams I have around two that call each night. Way down but not unusual for this time of year.

[nuthatch]

Have had a hedgie puffing around like a distant steam train these past two nights

[Placido]

At 3.40 pm through the pouring rain I espied a small medium hedgie on the small side. It was beneath the silver birch eating either insect suet pellets, sunflower hearts or mixed seeds, it didn't say.
I looked out again 5 minutes later and it had gone. I hope it hadn't been flooded out .......

[nuthatch]

I didn't think of that, Placi - it could have floated out of its nest on a bed of hay. Hope it was ok too

Saw a good sized hedgehog trundling around the garden last night