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Awwww he is lovely and what a superb photo. I hope your girls left him some slugs to chomp on.
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We so rarely see these nowadays, sadly.
He is lovely.
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A couple of months ago our GSD Misty came in from the garden and dropped what I thought was a football on the kitchen floor. Then I realised it was a hedgehog curled into a ball.
She hadn't hurt it and it toddled off into the shrubbery.
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I would so love to see one of these in my garden envy}}
We had them at home when I was a kid, but haven't seen one (outside of wildlife centers) in many years.
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awwww love hedgehogs, haven`t seen one in years though, we don`t get them in our garden because there`s too many badgers about )eat( {cry}
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We have one sleeping in a cat basket in the lean-to behind our garage at the moment. He was making a nuisance of himself, winding the chickens up every evening, trying to find somewhere warm to sleep. We filled a basket with straw & left it in the lean-to - he's taken leaves, grass, all kinds of bits and pieces in there & has been asleep for about a month now.
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We get hedgehogs in our garden regularly, never seen a real life badger though. :-D
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No hedgehogs since the arrival of the hens as they have stolen the overgrown bit of garden where the hedgehogs used to play. Paddy the springer spaniel was a devil for bringing them in too. I would have thought they would still have been sleeping through the winter, has the changing climate encouraged more to stop hibernating ?
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When our hedgehog was still wandering around well into November, I looked it up. Apparently they don't always hibernate, and can manage without, unless the weather gets really cold. We haven't had any properly cold weather here yet this winter - a couple of light frosts, but nothing worse. The hedgehog at our last house seemed to vanish from the end of October until the end of April.
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Lovely picture Angela, we don't seem to get hedgehogs around here anymore either {cry} .
Hope he becomes a regular visitor for you
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What a lovely photo of a hedgehog, they have such cute faces. We have had a couple in garden over the years we have lived here but they generally do not seem to be a round so much nowadays whereas once they were a common sighting in a garden. Saz, badgers are great to see, know there is a lot of contraversy around them nowadays but they are quite stunning, used to go badger watching when I lived on Dartmoor.
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Its a long long time since I saw a Hedgehog. They are usually at the side of the road if I do see one. Makes me so sad {cry}
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I think he was quite young, certainly not fully grown,and he seemed quite tame. The hens were quite curious, he toddled around for ages. :-D
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I've had one this year as well - but he looked on the small side and I was worried he wouldn't make it through the winter - hopefully the mild weather will have helped his chances.

Certainly not as many around as there used to be - but since I stopped using slug pellets a few years ago now have seen a few (and lots more frogs and toads and less slugs too)
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