Top 10 Hedgehog Feeding Stations for Your Garden
Hedgehogs are cute garden visitors, but their numbers are going down in the UK. Setting up a feeding station is a great way to help these spiky friends. Let's look...
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Hedgehogs
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How To Sex a Hedgehog
Is that a Harry or a Hermione hedgehog you have snuffling around your garden? How can you know? You may think you can tell what sex a hedgehog is from...
Clare Stone |
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Christmas Gifts for Hedgehog Lovers
if you have a hedgehog lover on your Christmas gift list this year and you need inspiration. Or indeed if you love hedgehogs yourself and need to leave some little...
Clare Stone |
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How Is Climate Change Affecting Hedgehogs?
Hedgehogs in the UK traditionally hibernate in October or November and come out again in March or April. But is this pattern changing due to global warming? Could climate change...
Clare Stone |
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The Best Hedgehog Books 2020
When the weather outside is frightful there’s nothing more delightful than curling up and hibernating with a good hedgehog book. So here are our favourite hedgehog books for 2020, for...
Clare Stone |
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The Best Hedgehog Houses - How To Choose?
Our gardens are becoming an ever more important haven for hedgehogs and all wildlife. Providing a hedgehog house along with the freedom to roam and fresh food and water help...
Clare Stone |
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How To Tell If a Hedgehog is Dead Or Hibernating?
As we move into autumn clean up mode in our gardens, there is a chance you could come across a hedgehog. Hopefully, he or she will scuttle off out of...
Clare Stone |
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Why Do Hedgehogs Fight?
Many of our readers report seeing hedgehogs in their garden "fighting." Whether you catch this action live or on trail cam it's a fascinating and often alarming sight: two pin...
Clare Stone |
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The Best Bedding for a Hedgehog House
In their natural environment hedgehogs will happily gather up their own nesting material and build the nests they need for hibernation, breeding, or just a daytime nap. But as British...
Clare Stone |
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How To Make A Hedgehog Home
Soon it will be time for our hedgehogs to hibernate. Do you have suitable homes for them in your garden? Hibernation is one of the most challenging times of the...
Clare Stone |
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Why Do Hedgehogs Have Late Litters?
Every time I spot a poor little skinny hedgehog out and about in November, I ask myself why? After 15 million years why haven't hedgehogs stopped having babies so late...
Clare Stone |
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What To Put In A Hedgehog House
So you have your lovely new hedgehog house. What should you put in it? How can you make it more welcoming for prickly visitors? This is a question we get...
Clare Stone |
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Watch Out for Autumn Juveniles
All hedgehogs need our help. But autumn juveniles are the most vulnerable group and need our support most of all. As we move through September into autumn and winter, it...
Clare Stone |
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How to Rescue and Over-Winter a Hedgehog
Because hedgehogs are so rare now even sick or weak individuals need to be given a chance to survive. This is why there will be times when you will need...
Clare Stone |
