Hedgehog house

As I was putting the dog out last night we saw a hedge hog carrying her young. So I thought it was time I built a hedgehog house. I started with an old paint bucket.

And then I cut it in half, next I cut a board to fix to the front.

I made a wooden tunnel seven inches long and a tunnel width of four inches. This is to stop cats and foxes scooping out the hedgehog. 

From the websites I researched it seemed a good idea to provide lots of insulation so I covered with waterproof material and buried the whole thing under a bush in the corner of the garden.

Update 2016.  The hedgehogs have been with us all Winter and summer and have been using the house which is now completely overgrown.  Hedgehog wanders round the garden in the evening feasting on slugs and snails, of which I have in abundance.