Monday is here again, which means back to work for most of us.

Has it rained yet where you are? What’s happening this week?

  • @GreyShack
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    102 years ago

    I bought some garden furniture. It rained within the hour.

    I have a day off on Friday to go dormouse monitoring - assuming that it is dry then. Dormice don’t like the rain and disturbing them when they will get wet is not something we want to be doing.

    • Beep22
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      52 years ago

      Any chance of dormouse pics, or do you not want to intrude?

      • @GreyShack
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        22 years ago

        I’ll see how it goes. Obviously our first priority is to minimise stress to the animals and get the checks done as quickly as possible, but there are sometimes opportunities whilst we are weighing and sexing them etc.

        Also, at this time of year, they are usually very active - unlike the autumn when they are sometime semi- or fully torpid and quite fat in readiness for hibernation. They are a lot easier - and cuter - to photo then.

        • Beep22
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          12 years ago

          Didn’t realise you’d actually be handling them. So interesting. Good hunting!

    • @sideoneOPM
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      32 years ago

      dormouse monitoring

      That sounds interesting, are you doing population surveys?

      • @GreyShack
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        52 years ago

        Yes - part of the national monitoring programme. I have been monitoring this particular site for almost 20 years now. The population is fairly steady here overall.