[JasonB]

About a week ago we sadly found a squashed hedgehog on the road at the bottom of our driveway.

Four days later we saw two tiny little baby hedgehogs wandering around at the top of the drive in broad daylight. This is obviously not normal behaviour as the're usually nocturnal. So it didn't take a genius to work out that the squashed hog was probably their mother. There is only one road any where near us, but it seems mum unfortunately chose to head down and try to cross it.

We followed the babies and found their nest under a bush, against a wall with our boiler on the inside. This obviously helped in keeping them all warm, but meant that foraging and food were a fair distance away, with our yard on one side, and the driveway on the other.

Anyway, it turns out that there were four little hogs in the nest, and they're now with a lady that specialises in looking after them.

I'm now building a hog hotel, further away from the road, so that when they're well enough to come back they'll have somewhere safer to live.