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. 
. And Kirsty said she'd seen a hat with bear ears...so i said, 
i have a hat with bear ears! So here is my hat with bear ears 
. I should probably point out i don't actually wear it that much (i lend it to Teddy when we go for walks 
), mainly cause i'm not that crazy about the colour pink (even though thats a "nice pink") and i have a slouchy black knit one that i live in anyway.
WIDGETIZE