Hedgehogs have disappeared
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Can anyone advise as to why the 3 hogs that were frequently visiting our feeding station have suddenly disappeared? I haven’t changed their food or feeding station. The good I put out is Brambles semi moist, brambles crunchy and cat biscuits. I have a wildlife camera and even right up to Dec was seeing them. They came back early March and all was well, but the past two weeks there has been nothing at all. Is this normal?
Mine have also disappeared in the last few days too. It seems to have coincided with the wet weather. I don’t know if this has made their natural food more readily available or they’re busy building nests!?
I know I’m being silly, but I feel quite sad that the hedgehogs haven’t been back to their feeding station since early to mid April, almost two months now. I only started to feed and film hedgehogs last year so am fairly new to learning their habits etc. I think the fact that all of last years squirrels have disappeared is adding to my anxiety. We had 3 or 4 squirrels daily until around Nov 24 but none have come back. There are no building sites in our immediate area but I know some councils use birth control methods or culling.
Last year was so wonderful for seeing wildlife in our garden and its just depressing that this year its all disappeared. I haven’t made any changes to the feeding stations or changed food. I suppose this is the side of wildlife watching that I’ll have to learn to accept. Sorry for the long post, I just feel sad and also anxious about what may have gone wrong for them.Having regularly hosted up to 5 hedgehogs per season, and with a feeding station stocked 24/7 and 2 nesting boxes previously used, this year we have had no hedgehogs at all apart from a brief visit in early March from one of last year’s hogs.
We have been devastated not to see them, and neither have our neighbours linked with “corridors” seen them, so we have assumed that there may now be none in our area. There has been quite a lot of new building construction.Hello all,
for the last 4 years i have been feeding the Hedgehog population in my street and we have had up to 11 different individuals regularly visit my garden front and back but this year we have had hardly any? I have seen two since April where every other year we have had many and regular visiting folk? Anyone experiencing the same ?Its like they have all disappeared>Our wildlife cameras record every night and we are just not seeing any? We also have for the first time in years no foxes visiting and agin we used to see them everynight?
I am still leaving food and water out every night but sadlyit is going untouched
any thoughts or advice would be usefulWe have had a male and a female visit every night, since mid June at around 10pm and they to and fro til around 3.30am most nights.
We’ve fed them every night and left plenty of water out for them. We have a camera in the garden so we’ve been keeping an eye on them. The female hasn’t been for a few nights and now the male hasn’t been for the last two nights either 😢 Readi g all your comments has made me feel better, thought something awful may gave happened ed but it seems its quite common for them to disappear. I shall keep leaving food and water out in the hope they might return.I was getting quite a few visitors every night, but I haven’t had any in the last month. I’ve had a couple of young foxes coming for around the same amount of time. I’ve had foxes and hedgehogs choosing before and the hedgehogs seemed OK with this, but I’m beginning to think it must be the foxes. What does everyone think?
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I’m new here but wanted to say that my dad and step mum regularly had 2 hogs visiting for over a year but but they haven’t been seen since the 1st week of August. They have regular food of brambles most food and biscuit left our with water too. A week before they disappeared we bought a new feeding station for them and installed a camera. They visited for 2 nights in a row after the new feeding house was put in but nothing since then.
They used to lay the food doen in a bowl in the open air to feed from but magpies kept coming g down and eating all the food before the hogs coukd get there. So that’s why a feeding station was installed and seeing ad the hogs visited it and fed in it, just found it strange they’ve disappeared.
We believe they have/had nested under a palm tree in the garden with lots of bracken and logs covering a house that was made for the. This is about 3m away.
They have had cats visiting the garden more (they don’t go into the feeding station), so just wondering do cats scare hedgehogs away. Though we’ve seen no evidence of this on the garden camera.
My step mum is quite upset at not seeing prickles and his mate.
They do have a mouse every night visiting the feeding station to nibble on some if the food and the odd slug when it’s wet outside. We live in rural both Cornwall. I am wondering whether I should check the hog house under the palm tree and bracken?I came on here to find other’s experiences. and was hoping for some answers. I discovered a visiting hog after buying a trail camera and I have been watching and feeding it since the middle of July. It has visited every night and used the feeding station straight away, when I installed it at the beginning of August.
Twice the camera caught 2 hogs but usually there is just the one. A large hefty one.
He/she never turned up last night. Camera picked up nothing and food wasn’t touched. I know it’s only one night, but Knowing they are creatures of habit I am worried, especially as I live next to a busy road.
Is there no-one who knows why a hedghog may suddenly stop visiting, except in death?The same thing has happened in our garden, up to 6 Hogs throughout spring and summer. Went down to 2-3 at the beginning of September. We went away for second 2 weeks of September but I had an automatic feeder in one feeding station so food was always available. Since we returned, not a single hog! I think there were some cold nights while we were away which may help explain but it’s still relatively mild here (Essex). As far as Hedgehogs and Foxes go, we have up to 4 Foxes every night and they generally ignore the Hogs (but sometimes get a pricked nose!). So I don’t think they are the issue. A Badger passed through just before we went away but then we used to get Badgers and Hedgehogs every night without issue. It would be interesting to hear from those more expert on Hog behaviour as to what’s going on?
The same thing has happened in our garden, up to 6 Hogs throughout spring and summer. Went down to 2-3 at the beginning of September. We went away for second 2 weeks of September but I had an automatic feeder in one feeding station so food was always available. Since we returned, not a single hog! I think there were some cold nights while we were away which may help explain but it’s still relatively mild here (Essex). As far as Hedgehogs and Foxes go, we have up to 4 Foxes every night and they generally ignore the Hogs (but sometimes get a pricked nose!). So I don’t think they are the issue. A Badger passed through just before we went away but then we used to get Badgers and Hedgehogs every night without issue. It would be interesting to hear from those more expert on Hog behaviour as to what’s going on?
My regular visitor (definitely one and possibly two) has also been absent for the last 2 nights after coming every night for months. The nights have been a little colder (rural shropshire and single figure temps) and although the hog looked nice and plump I would have throught it a little early to go into hibernation.
It seems a few posts on here are reporting similar matters – is there anyone out there able to offer further insights as to whether this it normal or worrying?
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