Hi Mrs Brads
Welcome to the Forum. Don’t worry too much – it’s still quite early. I still have only seen on returner from hibernation and I’m not sure that he hasn’t moved on.
Re. the droppings thing – other than ones left around the garden, I have come to the conclusion that hogs might only do the ‘usual’ poos around the feeding area if there are multiple hogs around. This last winter, for the second year running, I have had hogs who haven’t hibernated – one each year. In both cases they didn’t poo at all around the feeding area whilst they were the only one around. Saved a lot of work! So, absence, or apparent absence, of droppings doesn’t necessarily mean there isn’t a hog around.
Hopefully if you have had hogs regularly visiting, they will be back again. The males usually come out of hibernation first (they go in earlier – no hoglet rearing duties to worry about) so most of the ones around now are probably still the males. Hopefully at least one of your regulars might turn out to be a female, but they don’t always bring the hoglets to feeding areas, until they’re a bit bigger.
Hope you have some confirmed sightings soon. Good luck.
