If You Go Down To The Woods....
Friday, 30. October 2009, 17:24:56
...You'll find me on my hands and knees!... 
Get your mind out of the gutter!!
I was actually looking for nuts!
It's the annual "Great Nut Hunt" which aims to find areas where dormice are living. The dormouse is an endangered species here so it's quite important for animal geeks like me 
to go out and poke around in rotting leaf litter looking for nuts with specific holes in 
. For those that don't know what a dormouse looks like, here is one in hibernation!
Awwwwwwwwwwwwww. 
I actually did my dissertation on dormice, so after spending 6 months crawling around forest floors i'm pretty quick at searching 
. Sadly i didn't find any this time 
, but i've got my eye on some big hazel trees for next time so fingers crossed!
Anyhoo, its getting slightly more autumn outside now and i
the changing tree colours this time of year, so in between nutting i took some snapatures!
And something that reminded me of Lindsay
By the way, i don't mean she reminds me of a horse or..that... oh, you know what i mean!
Also, i came across this old railway bridge and of course the local youth had added their artwork to it... Um...don't look to the right...
Foxy Ladaaay! Considering what people usually spray on walls, this is pretty good!
But then i turned around and saw this...
What the... 
Err yeah. Very nice. 
Get your mind out of the gutter!!
I was actually looking for nuts!
It's the annual "Great Nut Hunt" which aims to find areas where dormice are living. The dormouse is an endangered species here so it's quite important for animal geeks like me to go out and poke around in rotting leaf litter looking for nuts with specific holes in . For those that don't know what a dormouse looks like, here is one in hibernation!
I actually did my dissertation on dormice, so after spending 6 months crawling around forest floors i'm pretty quick at searching . Sadly i didn't find any this time , but i've got my eye on some big hazel trees for next time so fingers crossed!Anyhoo, its getting slightly more autumn outside now and i
the changing tree colours this time of year, so in between nutting i took some snapatures!
Also, i came across this old railway bridge and of course the local youth had added their artwork to it... Um...don't look to the right...
Considering what people usually spray on walls, this is pretty good!But then i turned around and saw this...
Err yeah. Very nice. 
WIDGETIZE
garlingmatthews # 30. October 2009, 17:48
I had no idea that doormice were nearly extinct there. I saw lots of mice living on Tube tracks
lixxylu # 30. October 2009, 17:54
On Tube tracks?? Where trains go over?!
Animals live in some wacky places
garlingmatthews # 30. October 2009, 18:10
Hermitess # 30. October 2009, 21:06
That wooded area/forest looks very dense. How do you not get lost? Very pretty though!
Thank you, I do love the horsies.
ShallowMuse # 1. November 2009, 06:44
lixxylu # 1. November 2009, 21:56
And yeah just a little different!
But you do get cool animals at the side of the road! I was driven to a local town by a South African woman and i think i annoyed her to death
"OH MY GOD a Zebra! *take picture*....OH MY GOD a Wildebeest! *take picture*...OH MY GOD a Goat! *take picture*"
H82typ # 2. November 2009, 00:38
garlingmatthews # 2. November 2009, 04:55
Bit weird, at home magpies are big and bullies and ravens are small; here it's the other way around (although there are small ravens too. Smart birds).
End ramble.
ShallowMuse # 2. November 2009, 07:07
But its all relative, i mean, i'd be happily snapping away at oh i dont know, probably everything in the woods!
Hermitess # 2. November 2009, 14:15
getbacker1 # 14. November 2009, 12:21
Lechylon # 15. November 2009, 07:08