Congratulations, you lucky thing!
I’m not an expert, and I’m sure others will have more/better advice, but do what you’d normally do for any Heggie. Put out a dish of water, and freshen every day if poss. Put out food; cat food, or specialist heggie food. I put out dry food, although one of my neighbours put out ‘soggy cat biscuits’! Start now, so they get used to being able to find it, and hopefully it’ll help to fatten them up a bit.
Places to call home will encourage them to stay local, especially once they know there is a convenient source of food and water available. A log pile, grass cuttings and leaf piles, a compost pile – undisturbed, obviously! As you’ve seen, they’ll even utilise abandoned garden ‘stuff’. And of course you could splash out on a proper hedgehog house.
If the worst comes to the worst, you could take them to a local carer if they haven’t put on enough weight within a couple of months, depending on the weather. I believe minimum weight is about 450-500g, but of course you need to be in a position to weigh them. Ultimately, they are wild animals, so they will do what hedgehogs do naturally, and that’s good. They should be able to survive without too much human intervention. Just do what you can to make any hedgehog welcome. Good luck!
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