Hedgehogs

Humans have taken over the spaces for shops and homes where the wildlife would have lived, so we have to try to live with the wildlife that comes into our gardens. Sadly Badgers do damage to the gardens by digging up the earth to forage for food. They have to try to exist with everything else, and unfortunately they don't realise what damage they are doing, they are just going about what comes naturally.

You lucky person, having hedgehogs. I've tried encouraging them with homes, log and leaf piles etc. But, sadly I still don't have any.

Is there anything that Badgers dislike ?
Jeyes Fluid ?

Digginfit. The hedgehogs have a gateway through gardens here and the front gardens are available to them too. We also live near to the countryside.
I couldn't tell you Diane about the Jeyes Fluid and Badgers, but I wouldn't think it would do the wildlife a lot of good.

We never see any Hedgies. But its probably just as well as we appear to have a resident Weasel! No kidding! I saw it running across the lawn one morning, and OH saw it again today, heading in to the field from the garden. I'm pretty sure thats what chews my raised border log edging to bits.

Hi Cottagekarer, A weasel, I have never seen one in the wild. We did have a stoat in the garden down the road when we lived there. I was a bit worried at the time as I kept a few Banty hens, but it never attacked them.

Cats dont like the smell of it. Go elsewhere to toilet.
I dont have their faeces on my organic vegetables.

Yes, pretty sure Linda...ties in with the sîze of the burrows, the fact they like to live in tree stumps, the sightings, the lack of mice in our loft, and the serious chewing damage on the border edging. They do eat insects, and they have very strong jaws. All I need now is a ŵildlife camera!

Hope you can get a photo of the Weasel Cottagekarer. I'd love to see it. We had plenty of mice and voles living in the stone walls when we lived down the road. That attracted other preditors.

We saw one of our hedgehogs taking mouthfuls of straw from one box to the other yesterday which makes me think she is going to have babies. She comes out several times in the daytime to eat and drink, so perhaps her pregnancy is making her eat more.

So good when you put out a little place to make a home for a threatened animal and they make use of it. We seem to have had a large hatch of sparrows this year too. Not so many starlings as usual though it was a bit noisy in the trees a while back.

Yes Dorjac the Sparrows have increased well this year.