Hedgehog watch and other nocturnal garden visitors

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Eynsham Red Sep 2022 7:24pm, 14 Sep 2022 8,984 posts	0 Eynsham Red Cancel that! I just went to check that I’d set the camera to video and not stills and heard some rustling. There was hedgehog going back in the hog house. 😀
Wombling Plodder (Welsh Womble) Sep 2022 11:05am, 27 Sep 2022 4,103 posts	0 Wombling Plodder (Welsh Womble) 😍 Eynsham Red 😍
Ally-C Oct 2022 9:24pm, 2 Oct 2022 2,516 posts	0 Ally-C Yes!!!
Wombling Plodder (Welsh Womble) Oct 2022 8:25am, 3 Oct 2022 4,109 posts	0 Wombling Plodder (Welsh Womble) 😍🦔😍
Eynsham Red Oct 2022 6:12pm, 16 Oct 2022 9,067 posts	0 Eynsham Red Since around when Ally-C posted we’d not seen our regular hog, but continued to put out food and change it after several days, but this morning the food had gone, as had the food our neighbour puts out in their garden. We’ve both put cameras out tonight to see if hog reappears for a feed or not. We thought that it might have hibernated, but possibly it felt the need for food yesterday.
Ally-C Oct 2022 6:16pm, 16 Oct 2022 2,595 posts	0 Ally-C I know nothing about hedgehogs, we put out our uneaten cat food for them & have a hole cut in the fence to stop them getting trapped. Do they hibernate at the same time of year every year or does it depend on the outside temperature?
Bazoaxe Oct 2022 6:31pm, 16 Oct 2022 23,777 posts	0 Bazoaxe Some nocturnal visitors, probably foxes, are leaving deposits around our garden. I noticed they also left a deposit on my neighbours astroturf last night
Yorkshire Pie Oct 2022 6:36pm, 16 Oct 2022 14,756 posts	0 Yorkshire Pie We haven't had much hedgehog activity this year but still have foxes. We do have an amusing litter of baby squirrels at the moment, but they're daytime not nocturnal.
Eynsham Red Oct 2022 6:37pm, 16 Oct 2022 9,069 posts	0 Eynsham Red I’m not 100% sure Ally-C. It’s generally between October/ November and March April, so I assume that it’s to do with temperature and maybe length of day. If the autumn/winter is mild they might wake up to forage.
Mandymoo Oct 2022 6:38pm, 16 Oct 2022 15,296 posts	0 Mandymoo We haven't seen our hedgehog mutch but Foxie comes to eat every night