http://locksparkfarm.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/dormice-and-hedges/ Stories from a small organic farm in Devon Sat, 11 Oct 2008 01:54:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 http://locksparkfarm.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/dormice-and-hedges/#comment-729 paula Tue, 16 Oct 2007 09:39:48 +0000 http://locksparkfarm.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/dormice-and-hedges/#comment-729 No, they're not, that was just a gloriously thick rope of glowing Bryony I couldn't resist. Quite a few years ago (long before the age of digital cameras) I found one in some hay bales - sound asleep, with its furry tail wrapped around its head, it was just the most wonderful thing. If I ever find another I'll take some pics - promise. No, they’re not, that was just a gloriously thick rope of glowing Bryony I couldn’t resist.
Quite a few years ago (long before the age of digital cameras) I found one in some hay bales - sound asleep, with its furry tail wrapped around its head, it was just the most wonderful thing. If I ever find another I’ll take some pics - promise.

]]> http://locksparkfarm.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/dormice-and-hedges/#comment-728 paula Tue, 16 Oct 2007 09:27:24 +0000 http://locksparkfarm.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/dormice-and-hedges/#comment-728 They're extraordinary, Gill, they really are. And so well camouflaged, Robert has the eye. They’re extraordinary, Gill, they really are. And so well camouflaged, Robert has the eye.

]]> http://locksparkfarm.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/dormice-and-hedges/#comment-727 paula Tue, 16 Oct 2007 09:23:09 +0000 http://locksparkfarm.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/dormice-and-hedges/#comment-727 My mother had a pet dormouse called Rusty when she was a school girl. Robert didn't believe me till I showed him the photo. They really are the most enchanting things. I sympathises, mopsa - over regulation, red tape and bone headed bureaucracy - my bug bear. My mother had a pet dormouse called Rusty when she was a school girl. Robert didn’t believe me till I showed him the photo. They really are the most enchanting things.
I sympathises, mopsa - over regulation, red tape and bone headed bureaucracy - my bug bear.

]]> http://locksparkfarm.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/dormice-and-hedges/#comment-725 Jane Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:54:11 +0000 http://locksparkfarm.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/dormice-and-hedges/#comment-725 I have always wanted to see a dormouse in the wild. Now I know what their nests look like! Great pictures. Are they all nests next to the fruit? When do we get the picture of the dormouse? (only joking!). I have always wanted to see a dormouse in the wild. Now I know what their nests look like! Great pictures. Are they all nests next to the fruit? When do we get the picture of the dormouse? (only joking!).

]]> http://locksparkfarm.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/dormice-and-hedges/#comment-724 Gill Mon, 15 Oct 2007 11:04:57 +0000 http://locksparkfarm.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/dormice-and-hedges/#comment-724 Wow! Those nests are amazing! Wow! Those nests are amazing!

]]> http://locksparkfarm.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/dormice-and-hedges/#comment-723 Mopsa Mon, 15 Oct 2007 10:07:08 +0000 http://locksparkfarm.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/dormice-and-hedges/#comment-723 I dearly want to get my dormouse handling licence - don't see why some stranger should get the chance to peek in our carefully made and placed boxes, or poke about in our hedges, when I could be seeing the russet lovelies. I'm asking around. I dearly want to get my dormouse handling licence - don’t see why some stranger should get the chance to peek in our carefully made and placed boxes, or poke about in our hedges, when I could be seeing the russet lovelies. I’m asking around.

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