We’ve some lovely night time footage of our resident hedgehogs (see the footage on previous blog posts). They’re free to roam across all of the different habitats in the Gardens – they like cover, but they also like a bit of mown grass… we have plenty of both.
This week, with so few people in the gardens one of them has been bold enough to come out a foraging in the day time.
We were initially a bit worried. Hedgehogs are nocturnal and seeing one in the daytime can be a sign of a poorly pig.
We looked at here, she looked at us.. We looked again. No longer interested in us, she turned slowly and waddled off into the undergrowth
We think – given she ‘waddled well’ that the one in this picture was probably a female foraging for food or for nesting materials. Given the lively group we’ve seen on the nightcam… we can only hope that our hogs are growing in number.
See here for some advice about hedgehogs in your gardens https://www.warwickshirewildlifetrust.org.uk/hedgehogs