{"id":26202,"date":"2020-07-22T12:07:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T10:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=26202"},"modified":"2020-07-22T12:12:23","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T10:12:23","slug":"hedgehogs-in-the-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=26202","title":{"rendered":"Hedgehogs in the garden"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

2013 was sadly the last time I saw a hedgehog here (see the last picture here)…and there are only 3 reported observations since 2013 in the whole of Malvik Kommune, all found dead (killed in traffic), the last in 2017. There’s still a small population in Trondheim, so there’s a chance they will return. The population collapsed in the 2000s and it’s thought they were impacted by a virus, but many are also killed on roads and lack of habitat (too tidy gardens). As it’s never properly dark here in summer we have been able to photograph them at night and about 3 times have followed courtship and mating! Below are a number of pictures of hedgehogs in the garden over the years.
The first shows mating in the garden in the 1990s (from a slide):
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Courtship display on 13th May 2006:<\/p>\n