Hedgehogs are so unpredicatable

Our prickly little friends are always doing something we didn't expect. We're sure they do it deliberately, just to confuse us. For the last few nights, things seemed to have settled down, with the regular hedgehogs in the usual nest boxes, with just little Indy at the front unable to choose between the left-hand or right-hand nest box at the front in 9f. Perhaps it's the change in the weather, with all the rain and it becoming colder, but we are the the stage now where we just aren't sure what is happening.

Nightshift was very late getting up - after 10:30 pm - and when she left the garden she didn't come back, so she's having an away-day.



On the other hand, little Indy in 9f was up rather early - just before 6:30 pm and was already out eating when I arrived home. The car headlights startled it and it scooted back under the door into one the nest boxes in 9f.



What confused us this morning was that 9c was occupied - apparently by 9d. We saw 9d return home to 9d, then when he got up for something to eat, he went into 9c for a few minutes before going back to 9d. After another little snooze, he got up for another munch and decided he wanted to stay in 9c for the day.



He is a bit odd, 9d. We don't know if his sat nav is faulty, but he has a habit of going into the wrong nest box. We have seen him in the past go into both 9b and 9c for a few minutes and then come out and go into 9d. He also tends to arrive home at a trot and either overshoot or undershoot his own box.

Alfie was also AWOL from 9b - but we then got a surprise and two hedgies popped out of the semi-detached nestboxes in 9f at the front.



Even the amount of food eaten is varying. Sometimes we find the bowl in 9e (the feeding station) is nearly empty, due to episodes like this:



and other nights it seems it has hardly been touched.

We just hope they know what is best for themselves and that they make sure they get enough to eat. They are probably testing out all the different nesting sites, to find the best one they can.