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25-01-2007, 10:20 PM
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| | | Dormice
Now here is a good news story from just down the road from where I live .... Southend builds "mouse houses"
These mammals look real cute but I have never been fortunate enough to see one.
More information on the Common Dormouse .... Common Dormouse
Has anyone been lucky enough to see a Common Dormouse?
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26-01-2007, 07:19 AM
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| | | Re: Dormice
Yes, a few years back I was taken to a small nature reserve- I think in Hampshire where the warden was taking us around + showing us the Dormouse boxes. He opened one (I stress a license is needed to handle these protected mammals) +took out the inhabitant to show us. What a treat for us, if not the sleepy incumbent! |
26-01-2007, 08:41 AM
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| | | Re: Dormice
I saw one squashed on the road in Dorset about 20 years ago, and a couple of years later saw one climb out of a bat box that we were just about to check! They are great little creatures.
Not many in Cambridgeshire though there is an English Nature/Natural England introduction site in the county.
henrya
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29-01-2007, 04:13 PM
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| | | Re: Dormice
I have some livin 100 metres from my house. I haven't seen one but I have heard them in the trees above me and found their nests and nuts eaten by them. (They leave a distinctive mark). Here is a nest(its central left with an ivy leaf hangin in front of it.).  |
30-01-2007, 06:13 PM
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| | | Re: Dormice
Nice, I have heard they are hard to spot get a pic if you see one  |
30-01-2007, 06:34 PM
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| | | Re: Dormice
Hiya Crested Newt  . Saying they are hard to spot is an understatement  . I have tried lots of times and the frustrating thing is you can hear them but they are almost impossible to spot  . |
31-01-2007, 12:18 AM
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| | | Re: Dormice
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Originally Posted by vinnychameleon  I have some livin 100 metres from my house. I haven't seen one but I have heard them in the trees above me and found their nests and nuts eaten by them. (They leave a distinctive mark). Here is a nest(its central left with an ivy leaf hangin in front of it.). | Wonderful you have these lovely animals living so close by vinnychameleon, I often used to look for them when I was young, but I have never seen one, I have a live cam at the bottom of my garden where I feed my woodmice, and I often wonder if one might turn up on the cam one night, but living in the centre of town I don t think its going to happen, but I do have hedehogs visit, and I have had two polecats too, so you never know. Pauline. | | |
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