One thing that Dormouse Wood is teaching me - and it’s teaching me a lot - is the true meaning of seasonality.
In my last post I mentioned I hadn't been able to get to the wood for three weeks because one of my dogs suffered a nasty paw injury (Leon is finally all healed and allowed to play ball again, he is SO happy!).
However that really brought home to me the duel speed of life in a woodland. In many ways it’s an incredibly slow environment. A tree can take 30 - 50 or more years to reach maturity and potentially live for hundreds of years. At the other end of the cycle of life, it can take years for dead wood to fully break down. Yet, in smaller ways the wood moves at great speed.
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It’s been an endless seeming three weeks since we visited Dormouse Wood and how things have changed. Leon, one my my dogs, cut his paw quite badly so we have been staying very close to home whilst he healed.
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Do we actually have Dormice in Dormouse Wood?
Yes, we believe so.
Previous owners have reported finding nests.
The South Downs National Park say Dormice are active in the area and that the wood is an ideal location, with all the right food sources (hazelnuts, blackberries etc.) and the wood has connectivity with other suitable Dormouse habitats.
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It’s fungi season in Dormouse Wood
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