Hedgehog Friendly Gardening

http://www.hedgehg.dircon.co.uk/hedgehogs/booklet.html

 

A very informative link Simon :gnthb: Think I mentioned before, had one stuck on my mit once :o

 

An excellant post with great advice. For those up here in Scotland there is a hedgehog rescue centre...wormithedgehogs.co.uk. I do a bit of fund raising for this centre which is run single handed by an elderly man who has given up his garden to numerous sheds for injured/ underweight hedgehogs. Unfortunately we seldom see hedgehogs where I live as there are badgers around.

 

There was a dead Hedgepig in the road today :cry::cry:

Why wasn't it asleep for the winter.

 

Thank you for a very informative post SimonZ.
I had hedgehogs in my last garden and saw them regularly.
During the day I heard them snoring - they snore like little pigs.
We saw their big untidy nests and sometimes there were areas of grass we couldn't cut because there was a nest on it.
The babies are so cute, like snowballs dipped in chocolate and sprinkled with coconut.
I've only once seen a hedgehog since I've been in this house with a much smaller garden - but maybe they're still around but nesting in one of the neighbouring gardens with more space for them.

 

Like these ?

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://critteristic.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/baby-hedgehogs.jpg&imgrefurl=http://critteristic.com/other-cuties/not-1-not-2-but-3-cute-hedgehogs/&h=361&w=500&sz=35&tbnid=yyf7ZDRWWKddsM:&tbnh=94&tbnw=130&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dbaby%2Bhedgehogs&zoom=1&q=baby+hedgehogs&usg=__Pp4Wvl1bk3Q4wbaBrtxj0hrH1BA=&sa=X&ei=f8D2TJf6CMqmhAfZqdHJBQ&ved=0CCMQ9QEwAA

 

Oh so cute Ziggy. Thanks for the link.
Yes, they're just like that when they're in the nest, but by the time they venture out they look darker with the white bits sticking out - just like Lee's Macaroon Snowballs.

 

We used to have those for tea sometimes, bother, I want one now.

 

I had a big boxfull for you Ziggy but I'm too incompetent to post them

 

Might get a bit squashed in the post too Alice :D

Have you got Bridge to Terrabithia through yet ?

 

You had them for tea?

 

Only got them for tea on a sunday, & even then, only if we were having guests round.

With 30 odd cousins it was always a fight for the last one, sometimes I would only get to lick the plate they were served on :cry:

 

I can only imagine that's a joke, but as I am quite a gullible person I'm not so sure. Thus, I can only hope it is.

 

Quote Alice "the white bits sticking out - just like Lee's Macaroon Snowballs."

Sorry Simon, just seen your age, you probably wern't brought up with Macaroon Snowballs, not considered healthy eating now I guess.

 

Ah - you used to eat Macaroon Snowballs for tea! I thought you were talking about hedgehogs...sorry, my fault.