Tag: Harvest Mouse

  • Striking Gold! | Surrey Wildlife Trust

    Striking Gold! | Surrey Wildlife Trust

    A blog about the Surrey Harvest Mouse Project written for SWT Nature Notes “On Tuesday morning I allowed myself a sigh of relief as I held up the plastic bag in the chill and misty dawn in a wet meadow along the River Wey in Shalford.” Source: Striking Gold! | Surrey Wildlife Trust

  • Gatwick’s grasslands give up a gem: juvenile harvest mouse, 3g

    Sunday At 05:00 this morning I headed out onto almost deserted roads, the cars outnumbered by planes overhead on their final approaches: as I cruised up the A3 to junction 10 I waved farewell to those heading north into Heathrow and instead turned east onto the M25 with those Gatwick-bound. Our destination was the same,…

  • Shermans, Slugs and the “Wee, sleekit, cow’rin, tim’rous beastie”

    Thundry Meadows, Surrey: SWT  Harvest Mice Survey Day 2 I am prepared to deal with most things I would find in a small mammal trap but this morning, still only half awake, I was not ready for the two enormous slugs that had taken up residence in the Sherman trap. They lay side by side along…