Who’s on a diet!!


It’s the time when we are all meant to be on a diet ready for the summer but the two separate casualties that arrived in the autumn needed to put ON plenty of weight.


After!


They were 2 juvenile dormice. Luckily with plenty of food available one dormouse managed to get up to weight to hibernate through the winter. The other one decided to stay awake with food on tap! Left are the ‘before’ and ‘after’ photos for our dormouse diet!


When the spring arrives each dormouse will be returned to the habitat that they came from.


Great Results


Last year, you may remember we started ringing birds. We did blackbirds, sea birds and birds of prey. Soon we started to get reports of sightings.


Now at the end of the year we were pleased to get the final number for 2011. You know about the blackbird that we reared and was recorded 15 miles away four months after release, but the seabirds were the most successful.


21 were seen out of 90 birds that were rung. 6 Lesser Black-backed Gulls seen in Spain and Portugal. One Herring Gull went on holiday to Jersey, one to Cornwall, one to Weymouth; a brave soul went up north, one to Hereford and the other 10 stayed around locally ranging from Burnham on Sea up to Weston Super Mare.


So it’s great to know that they have survived. Hopefully we will receive further information in future months and years.


Gannet (left)


Manx Shearwater (left)


Young Blackbirds (below)


A gull in Madrid sporting our ring (right)


9


Before: Juvenile


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