Even more nocturnals
Posted on: 16/01/2012
Tuesday January 24th 2012
A real treat this week. I have an old haybale in the woods which terrifyingly rolled down the hill a few years ago. Fortunately a tree took the impact and held firm so I just left it there for animals to use for nesting material. Some new holes appeared in it recently so I set the camera up to see who had taken up residence. It's possible this pine marten has made a home but probably more likely that it has eaten whatever rodent was inside. Lovely to see a marten on the land anyway, so I'll try to watch his antics more closely now I know he's there.
Closer towards the house I'd also spotted some tiny new holes in the bank. Impossible to tell from infra red imagery which species of mouse it is but working on the basis that it's too big to be a harvest mouse and too small for a yellow-necked mouse, it must be either a field mouse or a wood mouse.
When I've got some proper shots I'll put some up - fingers crossed!