Yes and no... It is an H70, so more sophisticated than the H45, but also a bit cheaper. The H45 was a bit more like a "Box Brownie." This new one has a lot more features like photo and video size and adjustments for light etc., So I've had several goes at changing the settings. But I'd rather not. It's like my Lumix LX15 camera, an unbelievable number of settings of which I use very few. I'm not into photography that much now. Reminds me of when I was seventeen, an Armenian girl worked in the same office as I and her father had bought her a new Voightlander Vito B camera for her birthday as she was about to go on holiday with some girlfriends. She asked me how to set it, for different circumstances. But she found it too difficult to master. So I got a roll of Sellotape and taped it up so that would take a reasonable all round picture. She showed me the photos when she came back from holiday and they had come out OK.
I liked to see the hedgehog in color makes the whole adventure seem more real for some odd reason. Most of my cam trail pics are of raccoons and deer.
Riley, I know what you mean with buying something that has a bunch of options that you don’t want and will not use. Customers are put in this situation with several products these days. I hope you have a good experience with this model.
Not a lot happening, at either house, there's been "no domestics" at all. Food and water has been consumed and drunk in both locations. A bit a problem here, as the station is being frequented by slugs. For those unaware hedgehogs seem to like proprietary brand hedgehog pellets and not slugs and you can't blame them. > So I spent half an hour this afternoon making a new small pest-proof feeder out of an inverted plastic fat ball container. The old one we had was "hanging" and far too big. The bowl is stainless steel and I bolted it to the base, (the lid of the box). I made the usual tunnel out of a couple bricks and some spare roof slates.
I managed to get a video of Hettie using the new feeder. It's taken her a couple of days to get used to it. The advantage is that she can see the food through the plastic and the entrance is a tunnel like the other house. She makes a complete tour of the station before going in. She cleared all the food. The old one was a pain to clean. This one is much easier, I can pick it up and carry it into the shed and put it on the bench. So far she hasn't also used it as a toilet which is considerate.
The doorway in the side fence is regularly used by the hedgehogs and Marcel the field mouse. The fox and the cat have looked through it. But last night the camera caught this. > I decided I wasn't having that. I can't stop cats getting in our garden, but I'll be blowed if I'm going to make it easy for them. This one will have to scale the six-foot fences like any other cat or the fox. I raised the threshold of the doorway, so now it's just 4.5" high and wide, which will only allow hedgehogs and the mouse through.
I just found this, Riley. This is so cool! Pretty soon you can have a whole hedgehog neighborhood! Are they okay after the cats fiasco?
I had to quit putting food out for the cats and dogs. The raccoons, foxes and coyotes smell the food a mile away. one cat fight with a raccoon was enough. And listening to a rodeo on the roof with the cats and raccoons stomping around like big foot… Now I don’t put food out for my animals and the raccoons still come to dig in the grass for grubs… but no more rodeo’s on the roof at 3AM. The vet bill was serious cash. Kitty ok.. raccoon not so much trapped him took him to another area. He was mean… always every night creating issues.. the cats smelled the raccoon coming and ran to hide, one kitty was bit thru the foot. Ok now was 3 weeks daily nursing..
Yeah, raccoons can be very mean. I don't understand people who have them for pets. I don't know, maybe if they have them from birth?
Riley seems to be lucky to keep his little hedgehog safe. Of course he is diligent about protecting his lil buddy. No raccoons around his little zoo. I have no hedgehogs here but everything else..
It's a long story. We found a dehydrated young hedgehog on our front lawn two years ago around May in the middle of the day. He was very ill and we were surprised he lived. We put him in the shade under an azalea with water and some food. We don't think he was actually ever "a full shilling," after his ordeal. But he recovered and I bought him a hedgehog house, which we kept under the azaleas to the side of our patio. He found this and moved in and we regularly left food out for him. I stitch-drilled a hole in the concrete panel of the side fence and fitted a doorway with a door. The plan was, at some time to open it and let him roam. But in the end we didn't let him out of our garden, as my wife was concerned that he might get run over, as other hedgehogs have over the years in our very quiet road. At the end of the summer of that year I bought a second house and gave it a lot of insulation and swopped them over. He hibernated quite early and re-appeared last year and spent his time roaming all over the garden. He then disappeared in September again, but didn't appear in April this year. I checked the house and he wasn't in it. We've no idea what happened to him. So now we had two trail cameras, two hedgehog houses and no hedgehogs! I cleaned out the house opposite the patio and put the second one near the back fence. I then took off the door in the fence. Within days both houses got new tenants! So we've actually got two hedgehogs, "Hettie" and "Stripe," (because he has some white markings on his spines). We really don't know which sex are either of them.The houses, are cat and fox-proof but there's no evidence of visiting cats and the fox have shown any interest in either. There's no way they can get in or out of our garden except by this doorway. At the moment, neither hedgehog is occupying either house as it's too warm. The back-end of next door's garden, opposite the doorway is like a jungle, totally uncared for, so they've probably got a home in there. They do check on the houses, as they will likely use them for hibernation They were occupied in the early part of this year. Both have plenty of hay in them ready for the end of this month when this is likely to start. Success! The new threshold didn't bother the hedgehogs, they were in and out as usual. The cat tried to get its stupid head through, but couldn't, so went away.
It's so cool that you're able to have those. We don't have them here. Although when we lived in Washington, I visited my brother every summer for a weekend. We'd get up early Saturday morning and hit the farmer's markets to buy berries. We spent the whole weekend making jellies. One year we were out on his deck and under his apple tree we saw either a guinea pig or a hedgehog. I don't remember which it was. He said they'd see him every now and then, for at least a year. They just thought he was someone's pet that would get loose, and when they didn't see it for a while, it made it back home, then a couple months later it would be back. That went on for a couple years, then they sold their home.
