One of the most important things you need if you want to make your garden hedgehog friendly is an easy route to get in and out.
Hedgehogs can go a long way in a night, setting out at dusk and hoping to be home by dawn. They will sometimes follow a set route but will also seek new feeding areas, and I don’t mean the ones I put out for our hedgehogs.
We know there is a way in under our front gate, but getting in and having no new way out can be a problem if the front areas is limited.
Fortunately Horace has a hedgehog friendly gate to the back garden (by accident rather than design) where one of the planks on the gate has snapped off just under the lowest strut.
He can then wander round at leisure throughout the back garden before heading off on his next wander.
He must have a good trail to follow because he comes in to the garden almost every hour.
As you will note from the above video, Horace has just the right clearance to get through the gap and, having seen the videos, I know that those darn cats can crawl through this small aperture.
Of course foxes, at least our two, are a lot bigger than than even a cat.
Yet the wily fox can also get through the gap.
Just to show it was not a fluke, this is Ferdinand making the return trip.
Eagle-eyed viewers of Ferdinand heading into the back garden will have probably noticed why I have designated him as a him.
Robin's Nest 