Hello! New member please be gentle 🙂
Bumping this thread rather than starting another because it’s basically the same Q / thing.
Four nights ago my garden security light came on and rather than cats/foxes as usual, it was a hedgehog hurrah.
Three nights ago I setup a feeding station (a plastic tub with a hole cut in it and a brick access tunnel in the usual style) and trail cam*, but no repeat visit.
Two nights ago, hedgie was back! Took literally an hour to find his way into the station, I have loads of footage of him walking round and around and climbing over it / trying to burrow in under it, before finding his way in and scoffing. Camera was tripped again an hour later and again another 45mins after that, poss. the same ‘hog possibly different ones. “#2” went straight in, #3 circled a few times.
Last night @00:20, two hogs at the same time! Then over the next three hours a total of seven further visits for food but I don’t know if any/all of them were repeat visits.
All that to say – tonight I plan to put out *much* more food (a mix of wet and dry kitten, and separately plenty of water) given I have at least two visitors but hopefully more. Do I need to worry about overfeeding?? Googling I read somewhere that if a ‘hog gets tubby he will struggle to roll up into a ball and protect himself? But per above responses re- multiple feeding stations, I shouldn’t worry about that and if food is all going (last night plate licked clean, seriously – I wish my boys were the same!) put more out?
Thank you.
*Trail cam already owned because years ago at a previous address I had a regular visiting hedgie until the neighbours parked their dismantled conservatory against the fence he gained access under, and by the time that was removed months later, he’d found somewhere else to forage.
In other news I’ve ordered a coupla hedgehog houses one for each bottom corner of the garden (we have a good sized garden), and my wife thinks I’m O B S E S S E D ha.
