Hedgehog friendly

Alex Paterson, tCV Senior Project officer, has been working with 3 classes at Stoneyburn Primary School in West lothian on HogWatch Green Gym sessions to make them a Hedgehog friendly School.

alex says: “So far, we have found out about ways to help hedgehogs at home and in the school, carried out a bug hunt to find out if there was food for the hedgehogs in the school grounds, and planted trees to create more habitat for hedgehogs. We’ve also made wooden hedgehog homes which we placed in the school grounds. In the new year we’ll be doing surveys using footprint tunnels to see if we have encouraged any hedgehogs to visit. Fingers crossed!” alex also suggests a few ways people can get involved in Citizen Science this winter: reporting hedgehog sightings at BiG Hedgehog map add to the Woodland trust ancient tree inventory report any winter sightings of ticks using our tick map What makes viruses tick? record species you’ve spotted using irecord. download the app or use the website

Carry out our deadwood Survey take part in the rSPB Big Garden

Birdwatch 27th – 29th January 2023