European hedgehog
Considered a gardener’s best friend, hedgehogs will happily hoover up insects roaming in vegetable beds. Famously covered in spines, hedgehogs like to eat all sorts of bugs and crunchy beetles.…
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Help a hedgehog
What to do if you spot a hedgehog out in daylight, how to check your bonfire for hedgehogs and how to create a hedgehog house in your garden.
How to create a hedgehog hole
Help hedgehogs get around by making holes and access points in fences and barriers to link up the gardens in your neighbourhood.
How to build a hedgehog home
By providing safe places for hedgehogs to live, you’re much more likely to see these prickly creatures in your garden.
What to feed hedgehogs and badgers
Putting out a bit of food can help see mammals like hedgehogs through colder spells.
How to check your bonfire for hedgehogs
We can all take steps to protect hedgehogs on bonfire night. Follow our 4 steps to make sure you keep hedgehogs safe.
Lincolnshire Environmental Award 2019 finalists announced
Judging commences for the community groups, businesses and schools from Lincolnshire who entered the Lincolnshire Environmental Awards 2019.
Hedgerow
Hedgerows are one of our most easily encountered wildlife habitats, found lining roads, railways and footpaths, bordering fields and gardens and on the coast.
Lino Print Workshop with Louise Earnshaw
Join our beginner-friendly adult lino printing workshop, guided by expert teacher Lou.
The FCC Lincolnshire Young Environmentalist Award 2019 awarded to joint winners
Deeping St Nicholas Primary School and St Faith & St Martin Church of England Junior School were chosen as the joint winners of the Lincolnshire Young Environmentalist Award 2019.
Potterhanworth Primary School and 11-year-old ‘Hedgehog Boy’ crowned winners of Lincolnshire Young Environmentalist Awards 2025
The annual competition culminated at Whisby Nature Park on Wednesday 21 May with victory for Potterhanworth’s enthusiastic and resourceful Eco Club among the schools and groups, and the individual…
Woolly thistle
Look for the round, cottony, purple flower heads of the Woolly thistle on chalk and limestone grasslands in summer. It is mainly found in Southern England.