The one on camera has been seen coming from a different area, and the two at the back of the garden are yet to be seen. It's a last year youngster , but coming from the area that had adults last year. Yet to see the adults.
I now think the one out and about is one of last year's youngsters. Last night on the camera saw it going backwards and forwards with mouth full of leaves into my hog house😄, it's only been used as a resting place before, so hopefully it will stay as the ones who have used my garden before must have been males who don't stay but range about a territory. Each year I get youngsters left to grow on, never a resident adult.😁
Most nights we have one hog coming for food, sometimes two and if three come there is a great fight going on - looks and sounds awful. A bit early for hoglets but I am hoping there will be some in a few weeks time.
My adult is not being very active, but a youngster has set up shop in a pile of leaves behind the other den. I don't know how it made it through the winter as its very small ( the size of a large apple, can sit happily on a saucer) but is very active and between the two are eating a dish full a night.😁
I’m wondering if anyone has a strong recommendation for a hog house and/or feeding station that’s protected from cats and other mammals? I know we have hogs in the garden (we moved here in nov) as both us and our neighbours have had to relocate a sleeping one during winter for safety reasons (they moved on and found somewhere safe to sleep after we popped them in a box somewhere dry and warm with food and water)
im intending to pop the house in the wildlife corner in my garden which is where there’s a huge log pile and bark mound I’ve put together, I’ve planted it up with ferns and holly, and sown woodland wildflowers (it’s a shady area under a huge evergreen shrub)
any more info very welcome and thanks for the great thread!
The hubby bought me a lovely hog house two Christmas ago, they have never used it till this year.🙄 But I had an old bulb pot ( one of those shallow but wide ones) that was in the back of the bed on a couple of bricks, that is the one used. Also my new youngster is making his home in the pile of leaves that I put over the bulb pot, not inside, so no matter what you do, if it's a quiet corner they will like it. As for feeding just make sure the station is away from the houses, in the open and made something like this and the cats won't bother it @paulacastlepersonal . Don't forget water too.
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Last night on the camera saw it going backwards and forwards with mouth full of leaves into my hog house😄, it's only been used as a resting place before, so hopefully it will stay as the ones who have used my garden before must have been males who don't stay but range about a territory. Each year I get youngsters left to grow on, never a resident adult.😁
im intending to pop the house in the wildlife corner in my garden which is where there’s a huge log pile and bark mound I’ve put together, I’ve planted it up with ferns and holly, and sown woodland wildflowers (it’s a shady area under a huge evergreen shrub)
any more info very welcome and thanks for the great thread!
As for feeding just make sure the station is away from the houses, in the open and made something like this
and the cats won't bother it @paulacastlepersonal . Don't forget water too.