Beaver Site Visit and AGM
This year’s AGM was held at Woodland Valley Farm, the site of the Cornwall Beaver project. The event started with lunch provided by the farm and an amazing selection of cakes from the committee. Farm owner, Chris Jones, then showed us around the beaver site, which has changed substantially since our last visit, before the beavers were introduced. Since the introduction in June, the water level has risen and the beavers have started to build dams! Following the visit, we held
Dormouse Nut Survey
This morning, we went on the search for signs of the endangered hazel dormouse, at a new site north of Truro. When searching for dormice, a standard survey is to search each are around a fruiting hazel tree for chewed hazelnuts for twenty minutes. The way in which a nut has been opened varies depending on which species opened it, see the images below: With the help of a couple of experts, we found evidence of bank voles, a few wood mice, and of course, many grey squirrels, h
