Thanks Kitty878.
We have a light on in the garden all night it’s not over bright but you can see the garden very clear where the hogs go and they don’t seem to mind, it’s not a spotlight so it’s not shining at them, my wife has the upstairs window open and talks to them as the spot we have built the hedgehog garden is close to the house and they are use to her voice now, I get lots of squirrels setting off the camera trap as they have decided to strip the tree of walnuts this year, that is why I want to get something more permanent, it is very quiet where we live and surrounded on three sides by fields, as you have said it has been documented that they are not doing well in rural areas, in my post I said that I have lived for 10 years and just spotted the odd one, I would never have thought we had 5 hedgehogs, we have a little one which has taken up residence in one of the houses and each time another hedgehog comes into the garden he runs for his house as soon as they go he pops out again, he is in and out of his house all night, he will pop out for a drink, go back in for an hour, then pops out again for some food and then back in, this continues all night until 4am, great fun to watch these hedgehogs
