Hi Nic,
As always a comprehensive reply from you – thank you. But yes, I (and perhaps others?) never gave full consideration before to a continuing supply of nutrient rich food being readily available. A tough one – trying to help the hedgehogs against interfering with nature?
Just out of interest to others re: appearance of winter hedgehogs. I am taking part in the ‘Living With Mammals’ survey https://livingwithmammals.ptes.org/
Run by the People’s Trust for Endangered Species you can record sightings of mammals (not just hogs) in your garden/vicinity. Easy to do; you record the positives – sight/tracks/poo but also the negatives i.e. nothing seen.
This is helping build a nationwide record of where/when mammals appear. Will be interesting when the data is collated to see the changing pattern of hedgehog behaviour.
Happy Hogmass everybody! 🙂
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