I’ve got five hogs nesting in my garden, one in an outside nest and four in a couple of boxes in a shed that they can easily get into. I have a camera in the shed as well as outside and it’s surprising how often the hogs come out, have some food then go back into the nests for a sleep which they do several times a night.. The hogs inside the shed are all siblings who used to be in the outside nest but were probably told to move out by their mother as the nest was rather crowded with five of them in there. When I had to find one of the young ones because it had a bad leg I looked in one of the boxes that I thought it was in and got it out but it wasn’t the right one so checked the nest again and there was another one in there, still not the right one so checked again and there was a third one inside. Thankfully I eventually worked out which one had the bad leg. The nests were very hard to look through because they have used shredded newspaper which they prefer to leaves and natural things and they pack the paper in so tightly that they can hardly get in the box. It’s very funny to see one of them stealing paper from one nest box and taking it to another box and another hog coming along and stealing it back!
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