The Hedge-Blog: March 2014

Hoglets and Mum!!

These are very special pics of mum and babies feeding taken just before a neccessary clean. NEVER disturb a nest as mum can abandon their young or worse kill them!!  

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Hoglet Update at 2 weeks old !!!!

A picture  of the hoglets at 2 weeks old. At this stage they are just starting to open their eyes and ears – still very cute!!!! Not all of them would make it out of the nest in the wild. Mum’s have an average of 4-5 babies as an insurance policy.

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Cool to Be Kind

  I’m really happy to say I have been a winner in the Cool to Be Kind competition and I would like to thank the lovely person who nominated me. I’m cool at this ripe old age – can’t be bad !! www.cooltobekind.org.uk

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Hoglets!!!!

At long last here is a pic of our teeny tiny cute hoglets!!! Mum and babies are doing well and these pics were taken on day 11 whilst cleaning them. They were a tad whiffy to say the least!  Their average weight at this stage is 37g. Anyone can  help support us to save hoglets like these by […]

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5 mins in the day of a rescuer!!!

This week I visited a site to check and clean the hedgehog boxes and within 5 mins of being onsite i spied a beautiful big red fox sitting in a field watching me. He ran off at a sprint and then a large muntjac deer appeared soon to be followed be a female. Wild bunnies […]

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Going Batty!!!

Sat outside this evening with my son having a cuppa and the sun was just going down. Turn to him and tell him I saw a post today from a bat group that bats are just waking up. We look up into the dusky evening and couldn’t believe our eyes to see a single pipistrelle bat […]

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Newspapers

A big thanks to anyone and everyone who has donated newspapers over the winter months. Please keep them coming as they are great presents to find on your doorstep and very much welcome x

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Dr Pat Morris

Pat Morris is giving a talk on hedgehogs tomorrow( Tuesday 11th March)  at the Wokingham Horticulture Society 7.45. See you there

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Spring Hens

Had a busy day last Saturday helping The BHWT re-homing 160 hens. A georgeous day for the colony hens first taste of the outside world. It’s an absolutely amazing feeling seeing their faces experiencing such basic things for the first time. They were a feisty bunch to say the least and i hope they are […]

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Love is in the air!!!!

Spring is definately here at last with the long awaited return of the fat and rehabilitated hogs back to the wild – Yaay!!!!!! We are very lucky at HHR to have 4 teeny tweeny hoglets in residence. A mum in cage 13( no less )gave birth last Friday. Bit of a shock to the volunteer […]

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