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London HogWatch
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News from our #hedgehog camera-trap surveys 📸🦔 #ZSL project promoting London's hedgehogs and urban wildlife conservation 🦊 Supported by British Hedgehog Preservation Society.
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Huge congratulations to Hedgehog Hugh, Joanne Gilbert, and the entire Wild Chiswick team on their well‑deserved recognition at the Science and Conservation Awards at ZSL! 🦔💚

@wildchiswick.bsky.social @hedgehoghugh.bsky.social @zslofficial.bsky.social @zslscience.bsky.social
December 12, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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⚽️Know your hedgehogs from your footballs?⚽️
❄️Looking for a fun activity to fill these wintery evenings? ❄️

We need your help 'spotting' our Kingston National Hedgehog Monitoring Programme survey!

Help us to identify species & understand hedgehog populations in this key area: tinyurl.com/mt9cw4nd
Camera trap image in a garden of a hedgehog and a football
December 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Hibernation season is back 💤 🦔

We've put together some tips about helping hedgehogs in these colder months 🍂

Visit @hedgehogsociety.bsky.social and Hedgehog Street to find out more!
October 30, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Night-time visitor caught on camera!🌙🦔

This curious hedgehog was captured during our National Hedgehog Monitoring Programme survey in @barnescommon.

The #NHMP is led by both @ptes-org.bsky.social and @hedgehogsociety.bsky.social

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October 29, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Quality assurance check by our most inquisitive participants! 🦊📸

#londonhogwatch #foxoftheday #fox #cameratrap #hedgehog #wildliferecording #london #urbanwildlife #londonnature #foxesofinstagram #hedgehoglove

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October 22, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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When you get 5 minutes of autumnal sun and can start functioning again ✨☀️

This fox was captured during our Network Rail & @zslofficial.bsky.social Monitoring & Technology Team project to assess lineside biodiversity🛤️🐾

@zslscience.bsky.social #FoxOfTheDay #CameraTrapTuesday
October 21, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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🚨Exciting news!🚨

Funded by City of London Corp & in collab with Heath Hands, our Highgate Wood survey is now LIVE on Zooniverse!

Help us to understand the hedgehog & wildlife populations in this ancient wood by signing up and classifying 👉 tinyurl.com/ykhprrt9

@highgatewood.bsky.social 🦔🦉🦊
Screenshot of London HogWatch Zooniverse project for Highgate Wood Survey, showing a hedgehog on a camera trap image
October 16, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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Monday yawns are in full swing!🦊💤

#londonhogwatch #cameratrapping #cameratrap #london #fox #hedgehog #hedgehogs #foxesofinstagram #monday #mondaysyndrome

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October 13, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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We all got that Friday feeling... even squirrels! ✨🌻🌞

#hogwatch #london #conservation #cameratraps #squirrel #hedgehog #hedgehogs #zsl #britishwildlife

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October 10, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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A new yoga pose: upward-facing fox! 🦊🧘‍♀️

This zen fox was captured during our National Hedgehog Monitoring Programme survey with Kingston Council. You help to 'spot' more scenes like this by visiting tinyurl.com/5kn3cr7e 👈🦔

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September 30, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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We're surveying Regents Park, a park we've surveyed since 2016🦔

Huge thanks to Raffles London at The OWO who part funded the survey & volunteered with deployment!

This will provide vital insights into this important central population!
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ZSL staff member shows volunteers how to deploy a camera trap Image of an area of Regents Park, showing their lake and bridge. Area of Regents Park, showing a pathway covered in luscious green vegetation. Image of a camera trap strapped to a tree in Regents Park, showing a whiteboard with information about the survey.
September 11, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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It's #NationalAllotmentsWeek2025 🪴🌻

Allotments are important green spaces and habitat for #hedgehogs and other wildlife in urban environments. We've been monitoring a few allotments as part of the this year and they've been beautiful and full of wildlife! 🦔 🦋 🦉@zslofficial.bsky.social
August 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Barnes Common is known to be a habitat for bee wolves, which are solitary wasps that dig burrows in sandy areas. These wasps are also known as bee-killers due to their habit of catching and paralyzing honey bees to provision their nests. The females dig the burrows, sometimes reaching a meter in length with multiple side tunnels, and then hunt bees to store in these chambers for their larvae to feed on. Camera trap deployment, writing field notes Cinnabar moth caterpillar on a ragwort plant. Volunteers learning how to put up a camera trap.
July 29, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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We successfully deployed National Hedgehog Monitoring Programme cameras with @wildchiswick.bsky.social!

Many thanks to Chiswick House & volunteers! We saw lots of hog-friendly initiatives such as highways & habitat 🦔

The #NHMP is led by both @ptes-org.bsky.social @hedgehogsociety.bsky.social
July 16, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Happy Hogiversary Chloe!! 🥳

Thank you for all the hard work over the last 3 years! This year Chloe has been a 🌟and created our very own Zooniverse project (tinyurl.com/46fj3sun) allowing us to engage more people in our conservation projects. 🦔🦊
July 11, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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How Clean Is Your House? Queens Wood camera collection edition!

Our 1st camera collection of the year was a success & as always, lots of insects made our camera traps their home.

Thanks to Friends of Queens Wood & volunteers who helped! Time to see what the cameras collected👀
July 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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While half the team were living it up at #GlastonburyFestival this weekend the animals were having their own party! 🦊 🎊 🥳 #GlastonburyFestival @zslofficial.bsky.social‬
June 30, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Did you know that #Tawnyowls can rotate their heads up to 270 degrees! An owls forward-facing eyes cannot move in their sockets, so they must turn their heads instead. This movement helps with finding + catching their prey!

📸 @barnescommon.bsky.social‬ #FunfactFriday #DYK @zslofficial.bsky.social
June 27, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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#ThrowbackThursday to this squirrel's fortunate getaway in 2022! We captured quite a bit of action on this camera of a juvenile fox chasing them, but the squirrels always managed to escape! 🐿️ 🦊#FoxofTheDay @chrisgpackham.bsky.social‬ @zslofficial.bsky.social‬
June 26, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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On Thursday we deployed cameras in Queen's Wood! Funded by @hedgehogsociety.bsky.social & Friends of Queen's Wood, this is the first survey of the area since 2017!

Many thanks to all the volunteers who helped with the survey, we're very excited to see what we will find! 🦔📸
June 20, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Help wildlife in this heat by providing/checking water sources! Whether a pond, pool, or bowl, make sure its #hedgehog friendly!

Place shallow, clean dishes of water & add small stones to give insects something to float on🪲 🦔 🐦 🐝💧 #WaterforWildlife @zslofficial.bsky.social
June 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Last Wednesday we kicked off the Kingston National Hedgehog Monitoring Programme survey!

A huge thanks to Kingston Council, everyone who helped with deployment & to all the garden volunteers making this possible!

The #NHMP is led by both @ptes-org.bsky.social and @hedgehogsociety.bsky.social 🦔💚
June 16, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Last week we deployed our 1st #NHMP #cameratraps of the year in East London! A big thank you to ‪@ucl.ac.uk volunteers who braved the wind and rain, excited to see what we find!

The #NHMP is led by both @ptes-org.bsky.social‬ and @hedgehogsociety.bsky.social‬ 🦔
June 11, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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#Badgers gather straw by walking backwards creating a large ball! 🦡

They then take the straw into their den for bedding, nice & cozy! We caught these amazing images of this unique behaviour in Kingston last year🦡

#DYK @badgertrust.bsky.social‬ @zslofficial.bsky.social #CameraTrapTuesday
June 10, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Happy #VolunteersWeek 🧑‍🤝‍🧑

Our work isn't possible without the amazing volunteers who help us deploy our cameras across #London! Their local knowledge and hard work has been critical in helping conserve #hedgehogs. The BIGGEST thank you!🦔 @hedgehogsociety.bsky.social
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June 6, 2025 at 11:00 AM