Hi annamary
I did take the food bowl out from the one here. But it was really early on in the building and the hog wasn’t using the nest yet. If you can get it out easily, and the hog isn’t there, I would try to get the food bowl out. Hopefully the whole structure (of the nest) will lift up quite easily.
As you say, all we can do is our best. I would keep dropping hints. Leaves are best for hibernating nests – they can layer them more easily. They really are a bit like a woven birds nest, but bigger. So I would leave loads of leaves around in the area of the box you want them to use.
No they definitely don’t seem to read the memos!
