When a Hedgehog Looks for Love
Sunday, 17 May 2026
Although there are only a fraction of the suburban hedgehogs in the UK that were around even twenty years ago, life must go on. This clip from the BBC documentary Secret Gardens shows a female hedgehog looking for a mate. She really does have to search far and wide in order to find a mate, but eventually she succeeds! This is a sweet story but sad too, as it underlines just how few of these lovely, harmless creatures are left in the towns and cities of the UK.
Perhaps, as is featured in the video, more effort should be
put into creating hedgehog corridors, so that they can safely navigate routes
between properties in order to find the love of their life (well, of the evening
at least). A little patience and a little help can go a
long way – and it would be great to think that hedgehogs are considered when
new houses are built too. Sometimes, one
has to wonder why people even build houses with gardens – they are in such a rush
to pave them over that it is little wonder that the hedgehogs of England are becoming
something of a rarity.
