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[Two hoots]

Oh boy you are very well trained 

[CLKD]

He/she was LATE    by 20 mins..   It went to the dried, soaked meal worms and had a good feed, then a wander round our feet B4 finding the plate with cat food - which it got stuck into by tipping the bowl up  .  It investigated the water bowl but wasn't interested.  By then it was too dark to see much ..........

[Taz2]

We are seeing a lot of hedgehogs through rescue with metabolic bone disease which is caused by eating meal worms. Advice is not to feed them but use the specialist hedgehog foods such as the various biscuits you can buy or high quality dog or cat food. This  should be always meat based and in jelly not gravy. Never feed them any food containing fish or milk.

Taz x

 

[CLKD]

?'we'?   Research done?  Is this found by X-ray?   Perhaps the problem is already in the 'hog B4 it arrives?  Of course, the cynic in me says that hedgehogs would not get 'specialist' foods in the wild ......... nor cat/dog food however good a quality.  How much is interfering with Nature  when we feed the wild life? 

'Hogs scuttle off without problems .......... no signs of limping, spines in good condition .........

I bought what I thought is meat-based cat food as it says on the main label, to find it's got fish derivatives  .  Conning pet owners the same way as the companies do humans then 

I will put the hose over the ground in one spot later to encourage worms ;-).  I find it therapeutic standing there ........

Do live meal worms have the same effects on birds I wonder?

[CLKD]

About Brackley Hogwatch
Looking through for 'hog rescue' I came across this place, miles from me but a town I know well. [antiques ;-) ]


In 2007 I became aware of how many hedgehogs were visiting my garden. On feeding them quite a few more arrived. Within this group of hedgehogs I was distressed to notice how many of these animals were in fact injured. My presumption was that there were others healing these hedgehogs or they were self healing! It was soon apparent that this was not the case. A hedgehog came to my garden day after day quite clearly getting worse from the injury to his foot. At that point in time I decided that human intervention was necessary.

Over the passage of time I have undertaken training from Vale Wildlife hospital for first aid, care and rehabilitation of hedgehogs.

Since 2010 I have actively been involved in hedgehog rescue in Brackley.  I have treated at least 20 hedgehogs and released them back into the wild. I am currently running a trial following 7 tagged hedgehogs around the Brackley area.
Daily updates can be seen on http://brackleyhogwatch.blogspot.com

My aim is to raise awareness within the local community, teaching them how to look after their local hedgehog in Brackley and to potentially save 70 juveniles that would not have survived without human intervention
CONTACT US ON 07528 119416

I think his name is Andrew Jackson ..........

[CLKD]

Jens Hedgehog Rescue, Corby - Northants again.  Lovely Facebook stories.  Off to check closer to where I live  . Apparently hogs kept inside stink?

A lot of people like to give treats. Please don't. Mealworms, peanuts and sunflower hearts are all high in Phosphorus and low in Calcium. The parathyroid tries to balance out calcium and phosphorus in the blood and will take the missing calcium from the bones and teeth resulting in metabolic bone disease.

They are the equivalent of hedgehog junk food and if you don't believe us, have a hunt around for papers on Ca:P, or, there is a very good video with x-ray evidence produced by Vale Wildlife Hospital's vet Tim Partridge.

Hedgehogs are not slug killers and should not be viewed as such.

The normal diet of a hedgehog is earthworms, caterpillars and beetles.

Slugs and snails are less than 5% of their diet and usually only eaten in any quantity if there is absolutely nothing else available. Slugs give hedgehogs lungworm which is life-threatening and should be avoided at all costs.

Please do not resort to slug pellets. If the slug eats a pellet then the hedgehog eats the slug, both will be poisoned. There are other options for protecting your plants such as Una Dunnett's Garlic wash which is used by the National Hosta Society.



[Hedgehog Bottom Rescue]


A very good website, based in Thatcham.



The older I gets, the more I learns .......

Thrush is in the honeysuckle eating the berries. 

[Taz2]

Hedgehog Bottom is a great rescue as is HART Wildlife. Thanks for posting the info CLKD. Poor things suffer from so many ailments.

Hedgehogs do have very smelly habits and keeping them indoors isn't very pleasant but I think they're lovely 

Taz x

[CLKD]

Ours was early this morning: 3.10 good job we didn't sit up waiting  . Went to the bath at 10.45. I worry when they don't turn up in case they have fallen in the neighbours' ponds, got run over, shut in ...... you name it I can imagine every scenario    

A cat was around at the same time, probably attracted by the food available. 

[CLKD]

Started a hog feeding thread. Trying to find out more about the myth ........

Forgot to report - for 2 evenings a humming-bird moth arrived, flitted fast round the small flowers [name escapes me] - DH collected his camera but too late  . It flew away.  Dusk now.  Various moths are here. 

Thrush was singing this morning.  A young one was here a couple of nights ago 

[CLKD]

Well last night was exciting  .  One hog feeding quietly from food bowl, another appeared Stage Left and rolled Hog 1 into a ball  it really did charge into it.  Hog 2 took a few bits of meat from the bowl, left a large poo [which I intend to cut up later] then scuttled off.  It was ages B4 hog 1 uncurled.   One or both were seen on camera in the early hours, finishing off ......... 

[CLKD]

Female 'hog arrived at 10.03 p.m..   Ignored the cat food, snuffled to the dried meal worm bowl.  Scuttled off.  Another 'hog arrived at 11.00 and ate the cat food.  At 12.30 a male 'hog arrived, ate cat food ........ until dawn, 'hogs were backwards and forwards every couple of hours 

[Taz2]

Exciting! I love watching them but would still like to know how you work out what sex they are without upending them? 

Taz x 😊

[Hurdity]

Haha re the hedgehogs!

So excited that we have FOUR breeding pairs of house-martins on the edge of our outbuilding this year - since my husband put up another pair of artifical nests. It is lovely to hear them twittering away all day and watch the parents feed the young - the little heads of the young popping out as they fly in .  We have the makings of a colony! May put up another pair of nests next year!!!

Hurdity x

[CLKD]

The penis hangs below the skirt Taz ........ male is up on his feet showing all he owns.  Girls are closer to the ground.

Large moths around last evening  - think that moth traps are cruel so not tempted to put alight out over-night.  Definitely moths not bats .........
More froglets left the water last night.

Years ago we had house martins.  In the early 1990s they stopped building in the eaves. never seen again  .  Same with bats.  For over 15 years we did a twice yearly count as they left the eaves.  Cuddled up in blankets, we could hear the bats shuffling almost as though they were muttering "I went last night, you go first"  .  Never woke in time to see them return though.  Then they left the area.  After 2 years without sightings we had the soffits replaced. 

It think new properties should be built with bat access and pipes into cavity walls fo single bees etc..  Someone had a new house built with pipes into an extra room where honey bees built a nest :-).   They could watch them for hours and if visitors wanted to, the would sleep in the room.

[Hurdity]

Are the martins flying around where you live and therefore likely to be breeding in the vicinity CLKD? If so you can encourage them back by putting up artificial nests in the eves where they bred before! Years ago we had them building their own nests - probably 20-25 years ago - but never since, even though we saw them flying around the village every year. It was only last year that we bought the nest pair and they bred that very year so this year bought another pair and all are occupied.

Hurdity x