Overview
- Create a hedgehog highway by cutting small gaps in fences or under gates to connect gardens, as hedgehogs can roam up to about a mile each night.
- Provide shelter in a shaded, quiet corner with a log pile, compost heap, or purpose-built hedgehog house to offer safe resting and hibernation sites.
- Leave fresh water and suitable food such as commercial hedgehog biscuits, and avoid milk because it is harmful to hedgehogs.
- Build log piles that foster beetles and woodlice, which supply vital prey while also giving hedgehogs protected cover.
- The advice is timely as October ends their foraging season and conservationists note ongoing population decline.