This hedgehog cam brought the wondrous sight and sound of these wonderful hedgehogs.
Thanks to Sharon Pugh.
Tips for hedgehog welfare:
If you have found a hedgehog you are concerned about please use gardening gloves to collect it up, bring it indoors and put it in a high sided box with an old towel or fleece in the bottom for the hedgehog to hide under. Fill a hot water bottle so that when it is wrapped in a towel there is a nice gentle heat coming through and put that in the bottom of the box with the hedgehog, ensuring it has room to get off the bottle should it get too warm. Make sure the bottle is always kept warm (if allowed to go cold it will chill the hedgehog and do more harm than good). Put the box somewhere quiet. Offer meaty cat or dog food and fresh water then call us as soon as possible on 01584 890 801 for further advice and the numbers of local contacts.
A recently published study, The State of Britain’s Hedgehogs 2022, reports that hog populations in towns and villages have stabilised and may even be increasing slightly, but that populations in the countryside have continued to decrease sharply. This shows that what we do in our gardens and public green spaces to help hedgehogs really does make a difference: Creating hedgehog highways between gardens, leaving some areas untamed for foraging and nesting, offering water and supplementary food, checking carefully before strimming or mowing, and using wildlife friendly pest control.
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