We had an excellent turnout for Hell’s wood this year and managed to check both sides of the wood and found 5 live dormice, one female even had pinkies in her nest. On top of the live sightings we had evidence of dormice in a further 10 boxes.
After not having seen any live woodmice this year we were all excited to finally find 2 in the dormouse boxes at the Manifold valley. Another curious sighting was a pygmy shrew without a tail.
We had the usual selection of screams, falls and thorns (with Derek totting up the most falls), all of this was followed by fantastic chocolate fudge cake at the local café. Hmmmmmmmm.
