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Very good Jacksparrow. The food intake here has gone down, so no need to put out so much.

Down to just one or two hedgehogs now. Not had any coming in to front door feeder for several days . Can get like that this time of the year.

Just been out with the camera for small plot. Two hedgehogs there by the feeder. One medium and the other a large one. So I have at least two visiting.

For the first time since I've been setting the trailcam I have failed to get a photo of a Hog. The fox arrived and 3 cats.

during this recent bout of very wet weather I have been leaving the Hog food undercover on my back patio. I know they go there all the time so finding the food is not a problem and they are happier in the dry. Last night during a particularly heavy downpour a pair of them turned up and made a heck of a racket huffing and puffing and the occasional grunt. They did eat some of the food but spent more time pestering one another. They stayed for over an hour but I went to bed so it could have been longer.

Wouldn't you think that in this unseasonal monsoon season hedgie food like slugs, snails were in super-abundance? and reliance on human kindness was unnecessary, or at least less essential.
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Slugs are only a very small percentage of what they eat Placi. Worms and beetles are a high percentage. Don't know if they eat snails.

Yeah, right - maybe I meant 'worms' instead of 'snails' . But amyway, same thing applies to worms in damp weather. My blackbirds have been having a field day.

None of my feeders are being used at the moment, so I am putting the food under the hedge. All gets eaten.

[img] A few nights ago.