Hedgehogs are still about…. (1 Viewer)

[Fraggle 22]

Love the pictures. I need to get a camera!

There was a hedgehog on our front lawn on Tuesday evening. I used to see one a lot but that’s the first time I’ve seen one for well over a year. I’ve put some hedgehog food out.

Make sure the local cats don't eat it. We use a box with a short piece of downpipe allowing the pigs in but not cats

 

[AndyPK]

Troglodytes troglodytes*!!

(*Eurasian Wren)

 

[AndyPK]

Three ‘hogs and one fox, early this morning……

 

[AndyPK]

I didn’t know foxes ate worms too……….!

 

[Wildbill]

I didn’t know foxes ate worms too……….!

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Bugs worms snale make up a lot of ther diet they eat road kill maggots are like a super treat to them.
The equivalent of wriggling popcorn anything that moves wriggles crawls creeps slithers
And ground nesting birds
Mice any thing

Bill

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[AndyPK]

Three eating - and not fighting!!!

 

[LesW]

Three eating - and not fighting!!!

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Snap!

 

[AndyPK]

Back to normal……!!

The one that ends up in the water bowl only has one eye - not really surprising given the way they fight…….

 

[Nanniemate]

I love this thread thank you

 

[AndyPK]

Vicious little buggers!!!

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[AndyPK]

…and this is how they ‘uncurl’……

 

[AndyPK]

Juvenile starlings finishing-off the hedgehogs’ food…..!

 

[AndyPK]

Just having a quite drink when somebody bumps into you…..!!!

 

[Nanniemate]

Just having a quite drink when somebody bumps into you…..!!!

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Fiesty little so n sos

 

[AndyPK]

Very wet young starlings today…..!

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[AndyPK]

This is Herbie, one of next-door’s cats…… he’s well hard - and the fox knows it!!!

 

[Richard Hill]

Great videos - which Ring camera do you use?

 

[AndyPK]

Ring Stick-Up Camera 3rd gen., Richard Hill - there are 14 of them dotted around the garden….

 

[Richard Hill]

Many thanks - I think you've got more cameras than Springwatch!

 

[s20hymer]

Hi, many thanks for making the wife laugh out loud with your videos.
We had Pickles (he disappeared last month) and still have Peggy (she has 3 legs). In the back garden she had a lovely hog house well hidden, but along came rats, so she abandoned her house, and a rat took over. We have 2 feeding stations with corridors set up when the 2 used to visit. Now Peggy visits & eats from both feeding stations. We have 2 field cameras set up to watch them. 1 camera caught Peggy coming from the front garden into the back garden under the gate, now we are desperately trying to find where Peggy is coming from in the front garden. Both cameras set up to find her.
After a long story how can we get rid of the rats, they can't get the hogs food, but drink out of the hogs water.
Can't use rat traps in case Peggy gets caught, she did get her nose stuck inside a rat box to lick the peanut butter. We put the boxes up higher on logs but nothing seems to entice them in.

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[AndyPK]

Have you seen the rats recently, s20hymer …..?

 

[AndyPK]

There are lots of cats (and foxes!) living near us, and I haven’t seen a rat in our garden for a few years. Apart from being eaten by predators, rats (apparently) do not like pungent aromas, such as garlic, onion, eucalyptus, white vinegar, coffee grounds and peppermint ………..

 

[AndyPK]

This photo was taken many years ago when we lived in Eastbourne……we seemed to attract Foxes and Hedgehogs even then!

 

[Phill D]

Something to do with subway rolls perhaps

 

[Phill D]

Interesting to se a fox and a hog drinking from the water bowl at the same time

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[AndyPK]

Something to do with subway rolls perhaps

Nah - out-of-date baguettes from Sainsbury’s……. Foxes have more taste than to eat Subway……!

 

[AndyPK]

Starlings’ bath time…..!