Part of an article from today's Times (can't access all of it as l don't subscribe, but l think you get the drift)
"It is the season of goodwill and finding room at the inn for those who need it — and this year that includes hundreds of young hedgehogs.
Sanctuaries are in a race against time to recruit foster carers for a record number of hedgehogs born too late to hibernate this winter.
The warm autumn meant that many adult hedgehogs had a second, late litter this year. Their hoglets are at risk of dying in the cold winter months because they have not gained enough weight.
Growing public awareness has also led to more babies and injured or unwell adults being handed in. Admissions of hedgehogs into wildlife and rescue centres are up by 22 per cent this year.
Now rescue centres are appealing for people to help".
Would love to have Hedgehogs in our Garden, It would be a great home for them.
Unfortunately when we approached a Hedgehog rescue center nearby the said they could not re-home hedgehogs in our garden as we have a large known Badger population in the woods next to us and they said the badgers love a bit of hedgehog for their tea!!! so it would be pointless.
So sadly (putting it mildly) we will never see a Hedgehog in the garden, we make up for it with Roe Deer, Red Squirrels, Frogs and Toads galore, I do recall when I was young in my childhood home, we found three baby hedgehogs and looked after them to they where all grown up and they where still going strong when my parents moved out (naturally it was not the actually hedgehogs we saved) some 20 years after that event.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7755131/Prickly-situation-averted-Hedgehog-narrowly-escapes-crushed-recycling-plant-conveyor-belt.html
Part of an article from today's Times (can't access all of it as l don't subscribe, but l think you get the drift)
"It is the season of goodwill and finding room at the inn for those who need it — and this year that includes hundreds of young hedgehogs.
Sanctuaries are in a race against time to recruit foster carers for a record number of hedgehogs born too late to hibernate this winter.
The warm autumn meant that many adult hedgehogs had a second, late litter this year. Their hoglets are at risk of dying in the cold winter months because they have not gained enough weight.
Growing public awareness has also led to more babies and injured or unwell adults being handed in. Admissions of hedgehogs into wildlife and rescue centres are up by 22 per cent this year.
Now rescue centres are appealing for people to help".
Did you see the hedgehogs on Countryfile last night?
Unfortunately when we approached a Hedgehog rescue center nearby the said they could not re-home hedgehogs in our garden as we have a large known Badger population in the woods next to us and they said the badgers love a bit of hedgehog for their tea!!! so it would be pointless.
So sadly (putting it mildly) we will never see a Hedgehog in the garden, we make up for it with Roe Deer, Red Squirrels, Frogs and Toads galore, I do recall when I was young in my childhood home, we found three baby hedgehogs and looked after them to they where all grown up and they where still going strong when my parents moved out
(naturally it was not the actually hedgehogs we saved) some 20 years after that event.