Litter Kickers

A productive Sunday morning clearing a ridiculous number of green bottles out of the brambles on the way to the lake! #KeepKentClean

@HedgehogCabin We are honestly so happy! We don't recognise her, so that's also a good sign (our last two regular females had distinctive dark facial markings!) We've just topped up the bowls and moved cameras into prime positions and are looking forward to the morning footage review!

@LKickers Ooooh! How exciting!!🥳 You must have been so thrilled to see this sweet soul. I'm so glad she found you, and so happy your patience and generosity has been rewarded.🥰

A lesson in patience! We've not had a hedgehog sighting since September 😭 but all through winter left out fresh water and biscuits, just in case, and the magpies & blackbird have polished them off. We just had a sudden urge to check last night's footage... 🤎🤎 @HedgehogCabin

@SophiaSmith222 @HedgehogCabin We were thinking the same, but just kept a tiny bit of hope and hated the idea of giving up on them if they ever came back and found the bowls empty! We really hope yours find their way back to your garden v soon 🤞🤎

@LKickers @HedgehogCabin I am so pleased for you. I haven't seen mine for an age either, I can't help thinking they must have died or something, this has given me hope they are just having a lie in.

@Form_45 This makes us so happy to see! Every street needs neighbours like this ♥️

Eid Surprise From Our Neighbours ❤️ Today, She Gave Eidi💷 To my Nephew&Nieces 😍

Eid Mubarak - we're always quite sad when Ramadan ends. It's been such a busy month. We've got new neighbours this year who've been bringing food over for us, which has been amazing on so many levels - and great to share ours too! Our litter picking mission continues! #EidMubarak

@HippieKillerBoB @Hazzy2_0 We weren't quite sure, but it was very sweet and crunchy (and we Googled - it's called Jalebi) - we're half Egyptian and our neighbours are from Bangladesh, so two very different cuisines! We took them some baklava our mum has made for the first time ever!

@LKickers @Hazzy2_0 That looks amazing too, but what is the red spaghetti-looking stuff?

My neighbours are a Muslim couple, tommorow is eid, every year on eid (and more times inbetween) she brings food round, and sweets for owen, she's class! Eid Mubarak ✌🏼

@CFCMisbawu @xavierjp__ We wondered the same! Looked back and found a 2024 post on here about play stopping for Mo Salah to break his fast, and not a single negative comment 🤔 What a change in 2 years 😩

@xavierjp__ What I don’t understand is the fact that people are only complaining this year.

4 minute time wasting at a corner or goalkick: 😁 5 minute water break during extreme heat: 😁 5 minute VAR check: 😁 5 minute delay because a fan runs on the pitch: 😁 1 minute delay because a Muslim wants to have his first sip of water in 13 hours: 🤬 The most low IQ bigots to ever bigot in the history of bigotry I’m talking fridge temperature IQ levels of low IQ

During the 2020 lockdown, we made this video to explain what #Ramadan is like for us. We thought we'd share it to give a bit of background as to why we've chosen to litter pick every day of this month, to keep busy and positive. #BigBagChallenge youtu.be/R6j0mnjTNv0 #Egypt

We heard from our granny about all the debris washing into shore on #Eastbourne beaches after shipping containers were lost in #StormGoretti, so took a trip down from Kent to Langney Point to help with the clean up. Never want to see another onion 🧅🧄 @BBCSussex

@HedgehogCabin Oh good - thank you! we left some fresh straw outside just in case. Nothing ate any food last night and nothing on cameras apart from a magpie this morning, but we are keeping the cameras on all day and night now just in case anyone needs any extra help!!

@LKickers Oh what lifesavers you are! Thank you for your kind provisions, that's perfect. Yes, he'll go back to his home to finish hibernating now.

If you regularly feed the hedgehogs visiting your garden, first of all thank you for your kindness and generosity - you are a life saver. But sooner or later you will have a visitor who is sick and needs taking to a wildlife rescue (never a vet) for treatment. Because the need is so urgent it's a stressful time, so it's good to be prepared in advance. In the UK rescues are not regulated or licensed in any way, and there is no regulating body. This means anyone can call themselves a rescue and set up, without any training or experience at all. Although there are many brilliant, dedicated and knowledgeble rescues in the country, unfortunately there are also lots of bad, ill informed, or charlatan 'rescues'. And some outright scams. So as now is the quietest time of year for genuine rescues, it's an ideal time for you to do some research, find your nearest good rescue (Google 'hedgehog rescue near me' and it'll bring up a list of rescues in order of distance from you) and ask questions. That's your first clue: 1. A good genuine rescue will always welcome questions. Ask a couple like, "Are treated hedgehogs always returned to their finder?"and "What do you feed the patients?" If they've posted about an admission, ask about their progress. A bad or scam 'rescue' will often block you online, or change the subject. 2. Read their socials, and their website (check out the link. Scammers often post a website link that leads nowhere, just looks good), see who follows them and who doesn't. If you know and trust a good rescue you can use what they say and do as a yardstick to compare other rescues by. (You can't always go by reviews because someone who's just glad to be rid of the responsibilty of the sick animal they found will call the worst rescue "wonderful", if the casualty is taken off their hands and they are never contacted again. Then there are nutters and trolls who leave bad reviews to even the best rescues, because they lack a sense of control in their lives and get pleasure from exerting it and hurting those who they know won't retaliate.) 3. Look at their wishlist. Every genuine rescue is always desperate for consumable supplies - gloves, pads, food, etc. and will have a longish hedgehog-appropriate wishlist. Scammers often give themselves away by asking for money - donations or vouchers - rather than supplies, or just household items for themselves. ALWAYS be suspicious of a rescue without a wishlist. 4. Admissions posting. Beware of any 'rescue' who has no new admission posting for weeks or months, or just posts random hedgehog photos, or who never seems to provide patient updates, just retweets. 5. Appropriate accomodation. Be suspicious if you never see the rescue's hedgehog accomodation or treating areas, etc. Not only will these provide an insight into their level of hygiene (which must be a priority in any healthcare setting), scammers and bad rescues tend not to have this level of commitment. Good luck! I hope you don't need to use a rescue, but it'll all go a lot smoother if you have their details to hand now, before the emergency arises.

@HedgehogCabin Our water has been topped up all winter & no takers for food but we've been still putting small portions out in a feeding station & then moving it out for the blackbird in the morning 🖤. Will the hedgehog go back to the box to sleep or will it have moved on? Cameras charged 🤞

@LKickers Absolutely, yes.🥰 Hibernating hedgehogs occasionally rise for a top up of food and water. This is the main reason why it's so vital you keep food and ice free water out all through the winter.

Starting 2026 with a bit of a grim haul, but the woodland near the railway yard in #Tonbridge is now 200 cans cleaner. We'd like to suggest a few New Year's Resultions to the serial can dumper - starting with "Not littering"... #HappyNewYear2026 #lovewhereyoulive #Litterheroes

#MerryChristmas! A festive Christmas Eve litter pick, adding to our traditional litter #ChristmasTree collection over the last 7 years!

@HedgehogCabin @Fat8rascal Glad we saw this, ✅ and we have our fingers crossed for you!

@Fat8rascal Woohooo!!!😍 Thanks SO much, you are so kind and thoughtful.🫂 movementforgood.com

@HedgehogCabin Get well soon, Bronte - you couldn't be in better hands 🤎

Darling Bronte has only just arrived here, and already she is giving me the side eye.😊 Bronte is a very sick girl, and her finder has been trying to catch her for some time, but she's been running too fast. The reason she was running was not to evade capture, but because she was in so much pain she was trying to run from it. Hedgehogs suffering from fluke tend to do this, as this parasite's invasion of the liver is agonising. Fluke has been particularly bad this year, because of the very dry conditions. But poor Bronte is also full of roundworm and lungworm, so her finder certainly saved her from a horrible death, by catching her and bringing her into the hospital. And thanks to his nightly provisions of good food and clean water, Bronte is in good enough condition to start treatment right away.

We've turned our window #purple today to honour the animals that served too. #theyservedtoo @MA_PurplePoppy #purplePoppy #RemembranceDay

We've recycled our #Remembrance window that we first put up in the Pandemic. It feels important this year to honour our 2 great grandfathers who served in WWII & the message they fought for: peace, unity & freedom. By coincidence, one served in Egypt, our dad's home country ❤️

@CarlBovisNature We had a pair at the back of our garden for the last 2 years but they vanished over the summer and haven't come back. Today we saw a juvenile male (black beak still) briefly on the shed roof. Hope he's here to stay! Love your photos 🖤

If you see this Blackbird photo, please leave a comment. 😊♥️ When did you last see a Blackbird? 😍🐦😊