Hedgehogs have disappeared

[Smithwinkle]

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?

[mcollins]

my resident one occasionally disappears for 2 or 3 days at a time then comes back

[mcollins]

my resident one occasionally disappears for 2 or 3 days at a time then comes back

[Nothog]

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!?

[Smithwinkle]

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.

[Barbarah]

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.

[Slartymiec]

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 useful

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