Placing traps.

An extremely interesting day spent with Cumbria Wildlife Trust on the subject of Mammal Signs and Tracks.   It had been intended to go out on to the reserve at Eycott Hill, but time and weather made this not a sensible option.

The shot shows the modern version of Longworth traps be placed on the bank behind Mungrisdale Village Hall.  Oddly as well as I know the village hall I had never seen the Lime Kiln, how do you miss something that size?   I must have been keeping ,my eyes shut.

Obviously the main of the detail was pitched at the reserve and trying to get people to record sighting.  As a general point your local biodiversity centre welcomes all reports of flora and fauna as this helps to show whether a species is increasing or decreasing.

As an aside Cumbria biodiversity data centre has 2.7 million records many dating back into history and yet only 70 records of House Mice.
During the day we considered everything from the way different rodents gnaw nuts through skulls from owl pellets to deer skulls.

The extra shows 2 of the small mammal traps the upper one a plastic version very similar to the Longworth I know.