#hedgehog

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🦔 Your garden is either part of the problem or part of the solution. Watch this mother hedgehog and her baby drink from asimple bowl of water. Now imagine a summer without it. Give wildlife a chance: leave a shallow bowl of water with a stone, create small gaps in fences, let a corner grow wild, and plant native flowers and berrying shrubs. 🌿 Small actions, multiplied across communities, can create a living network where wildlife can thrive. 🦔🌍 #Biodiversity #WildlifeGarden #Hedgehog #Rewild
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Have just been sitting out watching a #hedgehog. They hung around for about half an hour, polishing off the decoy biscuits that are meant to distract the mice and voles from the hedgehog food. They then hoovered up the hedgehog food I’d scattered in front of the feeding station, and had a good drink or two, before trundling off.
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I think one of my hogs may need a bit of medical intervention. I’ve heard them cough and their breathing has a rattle. I’ve sent a video to a #hedgehog rescuer I’m in touch with and if she thinks he (clearly a he) needs treatment I’ll be on a stakeout to get the right hog. There were two or three last night and a scuffle in the feeding station.
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This afternoon a #hedgehog walked right past me while I was on a conf call in the garden! That is not a good sign as they are supposed to be nocturnal. It was quite wobbly and thin too, which is bad news. I left a bowl of water where it disappeared into the undergrowth. I rang a wildlife rescue place, and they said chicken-based cat food in jelly is a good food source. They wouldn't take it as they were full. I bought some cat food at a shop and left some on the top of a curry tub lid nearby, but I couldn't hear or see it for a while. After dinner when it was getting dark I went out again, and found the curry tub completely clean! I put some more cat food out, just in case - there's no evidence it ate it, and there are cats around :( I waited for a while and eventually heard more rustling and saw it again near the cat food 🥳 There were also 2 fat slugs near which I think they eat, so hopefully it will be OK overnight 🤞 Hedgehogs are cool.
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