A new video has been made thanks to Sandy Butler and East Lothian Climate Action Network to showcase the project. It was filmed in fantastic Belhaven Community Garden.
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A young male hedgehog was found sitting around in the daytime at Winterfield Park entrance in Dunbar on 23rd April. He was extremely poorly and luckily was rescued and taken to Burntisland Hedgehog Haven who have done an amazing job at getting him better 🥰 See here for their original facebook post where they called…
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Hydrating Hedgehogs
Hedgehogs need to get enough water to stay healthy. They can find this in the insects that they eat, in the dew or by drinking from puddles. But when there has been a lack of rain, then the ground is drier, insects can be harder to find and less natural sources of water are available.…
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Boosting Bugs
Hedgehogs should be out and about this month and will be spending their time building back up the energy they lost while hibernating, in preparation for their mating season. A hedgehog’s diet is mostly made up of creepie crawlies like beetles, caterpillars, worms, slugs, earwigs and millipedes. Top tips of ways to create areas in…
Our Pledgehog Project Officer, Jen Walker, was interviewed by Gary McGregor on his ‘Home straight with Gary McGregor’ show on East Coast FM radio on 28th February. They talked a bit about the project and what we can be doing to help hedgehogs at this time of year. Click here to listen again.
This month, now spring is in the air, hedgehogs will begin to emerge from hibernation. After a long period without food, they might have lost around a third of their body weight. This is the perfect time to start putting out supplementary food and water as they will be extremely hungry. The hedgehog’s natural diet…
This month, before hedgehogs come out of hibernation, I would like to urge you to have a look around your garden, or outdoor space, to try and make it a safer place for hedgehogs to visit when the Spring comes. Why not try and imagine that you’re a hedgehog, snuffling around at night looking for…
The Pledgehog Project have some hedgehog highway hole signs to give away for free if you make a gap to let hedgehogs through your fence. Hedgehogs need a gap the size of a CD case (13 cm squared) to get into your garden or outdoor space. Once you have made your gap if you add…
Throughout 2025 I hope you would like to follow our monthly hints to help hedgehogs. To start the year, would you like to take a couple of minutes to watch the ‘Hedgehog Close’ video which shows how important it is for hedgehogs to be able to roam freely around our towns and villages between gardens?…
Usually our Pledgehog Project aims to inspire you to make changes to your outdoor space to make it more hedgehog friendly. However, with it being the start of a new year we would like to highlight some other ways that you could support the running of the project throughout 2025. Jen Walker, Pledgehog Officer, says:…