Been dormousing

I've been helping with the field work on the Mammal Society's Dormouse and Conservation course. Basically, we, the helpers, assist the course participants in checking the nest boxes--showing them how to do it and making sure anything in them which could be a dormeece is kept in the box until everyone has a chance to see it. To do that we plug the hole with moss temporarily which has no effect upon the dormouse.

We found two. One was in a torpor, the other was very active. Anyway, I got to handle some more, which will all help towards my licence, which I hope to apply for this summer.

One of the dormice from today's survey.