The one that got away - dormouse version.

Fishermen traditionally have stories of minnows the size of blue whales that got away with no evidence to prove or disprove the stories. Today, while helping with a survey to find some dormeece for a Mammal Society course, two managed to escape from a box I was checking. The first one shot out the hole in the back of the box and up the tree it was on before dropping onto the ground - behaviour, neither of us surveyors had seen before. It then climbed up a piece of stick where it posed blinking, for us to photograph it. When we attempted to catch it to put back in the box it disappeared up a tree. I was asked to check the box just in case and as I did so another one shot out and up the tree and out of sight. Not the best start I've had to a survey.

Illegal immigrants are all the news at the moment, how about these ones in another dormouse box?

After all that we found some more for the students so they got to see a live dormouse or two and I got to handle another one. All of course while researching for Bike.