Hedgehog watch and other nocturnal garden visitors

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Yorkshire Pie
Yorkshire Pie
Dec 2020
4:33pm, 2 Dec 2020
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The food in our feeding station is going down very slowly and when you look at it there are definite crumbs rather than the whole chunks of food that went out so something is eating it, but whatever it is isn't as hungry as the hogs were a month or so ago. The bowl in the open goes down much faster but we know that cats, foxes and magpies all like it so I'm tempted to blame them.
Meeps
Meeps
Dec 2020
4:35pm, 2 Dec 2020
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Nothing has been to eat from our bowls for a week now, we do have a magpie though that keeps taking the bird coconut down off the fence and taking it around the garden!
Eynsham the Red Knows Rain Dear
Eynsham the Red Knows Rain Dear
Dec 2020
5:00pm, 2 Dec 2020
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Eynsham the Red Knows Rain Dear
I generally leave a fairly neat pile of food down in the feed station, and generally it all goes just lately. If we’ve not had a hog visitor, the food is often a little messy in the morning, and this is due to a mouse who comes into the feeder and takes a crumb of food and then runs off with it. It returns several times during the night, hence the mess.
Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs)
Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs)
Dec 2020
8:40pm, 2 Dec 2020
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We have a couple of mice too, they are usually busy collecting acorns :-)
Eynsham the Red Knows Rain Dear
Eynsham the Red Knows Rain Dear
Dec 2020
9:44am, 3 Dec 2020
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Eynsham the Red Knows Rain Dear
In retrospect it might have been interesting to note when hedgehogs stopped visiting, so theoretically went into hibernation.
Here, in West Oxfordshire, we’ve only had one mild frost so far, and daytime temperatures haven’t been below 3-4C.
I’m assuming that the more Northerly hedgehogs would have started hibernation earlier than down here.
Eynsham the Red Knows Rain Dear
Eynsham the Red Knows Rain Dear
Dec 2020
9:45am, 3 Dec 2020
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Eynsham the Red Knows Rain Dear
Mrs J, do you know whether your hog house has a resident at the moment, albeit not coming out for food?
Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs)
Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs)
Dec 2020
12:01pm, 3 Dec 2020
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We have had a resident since installing the hog house a couple of months or so ago, I assume he/she is still there.
Yorkshire Pie
Yorkshire Pie
Dec 2020
7:31am, 5 Dec 2020
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We clearly have hard as nails northern hedgehogs. I haven't been putting the camera out regularly recently but it was out last night and caught the hedgehog visiting the feeding station. He's not eating as much - only a couple of shots and a bowl of food now lasts several days - but he's still awake!
Eynsham the Red Knows Rain Dear
Eynsham the Red Knows Rain Dear
Dec 2020
6:30am, 20 Dec 2020
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Eynsham the Red Knows Rain Dear
Any ideas what hedgehogs might like in their Christmas stocking? I’m going to have to leave one out on Christmas Eve at this rate.
Despite the unpleasant weather, it’s still not been very cold here and the hog is still feeding regularly.
Yorkshire Pie
Yorkshire Pie
Dec 2020
8:13am, 20 Dec 2020
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Yorkshire Pie
Same here. We were considering renaming the hedgehog Rudolph and leaving some food out for it on Christmas Eve...

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