Hedgehog Friendly Campus UoB

On 25 th July 2019 (the hottest day of the year!) four hoglets were found out in the sun by the Overbury construction site compound outside the Medical School (where we had seen ‘Shelley’ the hedgehog’s footprints during our survey). At first only two were seen by a member of staff. Around an hour later the Overbury workers found two more hoglets in their compound. They were taken to the Orchard Veterinary Centre in Harbourne, one recommended by BHPS. Two of the hoglets were named Branston and Pickle by the member of staff who had found them, and the other two were named Michelle and Sheldon by the Overbury workers. We had received reports of a dead hedgehog on the road by Vincent Drive a week prior to the hoglet rescue. We thought this might be ‘Shelley’ the Overbury works hedgehog, so we put out the survey tunnels and a trail camera but had no sightings. So we believe that these were Shelley’s litter of babies, and when the temperature had become incredibly hot, they ca