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Garden guests vs pesky pests
Feeding wildlife in the garden can bring in all sorts of creatures
For the last three years we have fed hedgehogs in our garden every night, summer and winter. In summer we have had as many as five feeding at the same time. They mostly eat specific hedgehog food, but will also eat the cat and dog food that we put out for the foxes, which we also feed regularly. We have enclosed a photo (above) of a hedgehog and fox feeding together – a common occurrence.
We are also visited often by a very active wood mouse, which eats the hedgehog food. A number of the local cats also come in to eat the tinned food; they appear not to be bothered by the hedgehogs, who ignore them and carry on feeding.
Our garden is very wildlife-orientated. There are all types of plants and it’s definitely peat-free, without pesticides. During the recent RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch we recorded over 50 different birds on our feeding stations.