This is our third year of watching hedgehogs visit the garden and what a treat this has been! Knowing not everyone is able to see this wonderful wildlife visitor it has been a delight to share our visits both through photos and video.
All captures are watched live and that’s what makes them so special. I use night cameras outside feeding stations and inside our new for 2009 Hedgehog House. I also just stand in my garden with a video camera. You may be interested in building a hedgehog house or a feeding station. I have certainly had fun building and experimenting with mine.
Numbers of hedgehogs are in decline.If you don’t have hedgehogs or are not likely to ever see them then I hope you enjoy the ones that visit my garden.
VISITS 2009:
Sleepy hedgehog wakes up in Hedgehog House (video) – Sept 12, 2009
Rainy night visits to Hedgehog House, tick spotted (5 videos)- Sept 6, 2009
First visitor to new Hedgehog House (5 videos) – Sept 3, 2009
Early evening stroll around the garden (colour video) – Aug 9, 2009
Lunchtime visit (colour photos) – Jul 29, 2009
Breakfast visit worry plus details of Hedgehog House and camera inside. Lengthy garden update posting including videos of newly fledged birds being fed plus photos of garden blooms – Jun 30, 2009
Hedgehog photo (fav)plus first image of new hedgehog house in situ – see last Bloom video. House moved to new location since – Jun 16, 2009
Looking for clues to hedgehogs visiting your garden? (colour photos and video)- Jun 9, 2009
Eating supper (colour video). Introducing the new homemade Hedgehog House. Lengthy Spring watching update with lots of video and photos including wrens fledging – Jun 2, 2009
Hedgehog Manor (first House) in new location. Scroll down Bloom posting – May 18, 2009
Hedgehog drinking at ground bird bath (colour photos)- May 10, 2009
Hedgehog first 2009 visit spotted at feeding station (video) – Mar 21, 2009
VISITS 2008:
Hedgehogs using hutch (3 videos) – Nov 23, 2008
Introducing the hutch feeding station – Nov 12, 2008
Looking in the 2007 hedgehog house – Nov 6, 2008
Hedgehog update on cold night – Oct 29, 2008
Hedgehog looking for food at log pile (end of video) – Oct 14, 2008
Hedgehogs feeding on ground and at dish (videos) – Oct 9, 2008
Hedgehog and cat (video) – Sep 1, 2008
Regular visits again (4 videos) – Aug 8, 2008
Young hedgehog spotted (video) – Apr 24, 2008
Infra red at feeding station (video) – Apr 10, 2008
VISITS 2007:
Juvenile hedgehog worries (video) – Nov 12, 2007
Making a hedgehog house – Nov 1, 2007
Hedgehog noisy eater? (video) – Sept 12, 2007
First photos of hedgehog – Sept 3, 2007
Hedgehog eating peanuts (video) – Sept 3, 2007
Feeding station used (video) – Aug 24, 2007
The feeding station experiment – Aug 23, 2007
First sighting of hedgehog (video) – Aug 18, 2007
Photo above of hedgehog droppings.
OTHER BLOGS showing hedgehog visits and video:
MIDMARSH JOTTINGS
HOGBLOG
TWOSIE THE HEDGEHOG
HEDGEHOG LINKS:
British Hedgehog Preservation Society
HogWatch – Record your hedgehog sightings
Tiggywinkles – The World’s Busiest Wildlife Hospital
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The number of hedgehogs is sadly declining around here – I guess many have been killed by the increasing number of cars. Maybe people also keep their gardens too neat so that the hedgehogs can’t find a suitable place for winter. Glad to see that you take such good care of yours!
/Katarina
Hi there Katarina 🙂
Interesting to hear about the situation in Sweden. Thanks for sharing that.
Strangely enough the conservationists here use road kill as a guide to population spread and numbers. They suggest that when there are none seen on road then the problem is worse. They see road kill as positive and that there enough surviving to replace these losses o-)
Yes, I agree that tidy gardens don’t help wildlife like the hedgehog. I do tidy up a little then too but I also leave small areas wilder too. I also have many ground cover plants and shrubs that are evergreen too which helps the hedgehog. I suppose as gardeners we should consider a balance where possible 🙂
Have a great week 😀