Tag: Mammals
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The Furnace Place Dormouse Project: connecting a community with the sleepy woodland (?) citizen
After a busy week of hedgerows, harvest mice and River’s Week planning, time to relax…with a Dormouse Box Check! 9am in the woods at Furnace Place Estate (FPE), I met with Margaret, Wendy, Alan Mary and Nigel from the Haslemere Natural History Society (HNHS) who have been checking the boxes with me for the last…
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Encounters In The Wild: Hare by Jim Crumley. A review of sorts
“….what makes you think the Hare is done with night just because she kicked a badger in the ribs?” Ever since the days when I thought I might be a druid, the Hare, along with the bear and the wolf, has been an animal of power and magic in my imagination. This triptych is with…
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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,…
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If it moves, ID it; and if it stays still, ID it too! #BioBlitz! Wisley and Ockham Commons @SurreyWT
457 Species and counting! I love Bioblitz! Not all of my time is spent out and about on Surrey’s rivers or wetlands searching for the illusive otter and water vole, or creeping along my beloved hedgerows for dormice, stoat or orange-spotted elm-lichen. So when the moment arrives when I can spend 24 hours in the…
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A Transylvanian Adventure: 3 weeks to go
In exactly three weeks time I will have arrived in the Romanian province of Transylvania and will be getting to know the rest of the Operation Wallacea team with whom I’m to spend the next month-and-a-half. Its not a country I’ve visited before, or even know much about, except through Bram Stoker and Hammer Horror…