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Winter 2024 First, I would like to wish my supporters and volunteers a very Happy New Year, I hope it’s great! Well folks, we are past the winter solstice now so the days are getting longer – yippee! The nursery children have already sown some beautiful sweet peas. Last year some of the nursery classes…
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:…
This festive season Sustaining Dunbar’s Pledgehog Project are reaching out to anyone who has been lucky enough to come across a hedgehog in 2024 and is asking them to log their hog before the end of the year. The Big Hedgehog Map is run by ‘Hedgehog Street’, a joint initiative between the British Hedgehog Preservation…
Autumn Highlights 2024 Beehive Garden at Dunbar Nursery There is nothing quite like kicking through piles of autumn leaves to make us feel happy, so we raked some into heaps so the children of the Beehive could have lots of fun playing in them and throwing them above their heads for them to tumble down…
Leaving pumpkins on the ground after the spooky season has ended is being highlighted as being a serious threat to our prickly friends. Sustaining Dunbar’s Pledgehog Project is giving advice about the best way to deal with any unwanted Halloween lanterns. Jen Walker, Pledgehog Officer warns, “Many people believe that they’re helping wildlife by leaving…
Carey’s projects have been buzzing this summer. Read her updates about The Beehive Garden, the Day Centre Buddies and the Green Team
The Pledgehog Project attended the Fringe by the Sea in North Berwick recently which was a brilliant opportunity to chat with lots of people about making their outdoor spaces more hedgehog and wildlife friendly. Scotia Seeds perennial wildflower mixes were given out to people who wish to increase the biodiversity in their garden and people…
Now it’s Summer, hedgehogs are now well and truly out and about in Dunbar with sighting coming in from all over the town. This year so far, I have been excited to capture two hedgehogs together for the first time with the night-time camera in Dunbar Primary School’s Nursery sneaking in under the railings into…