First Harvest Mouse survey of 2018

Late in the afternoon I left Wrotham and got down to the Hadlow Access Trail pull-in on Victoria Road.

I found a lovely gilled bracket near the base an Ash tree with quite a lot of Ash Dieback around the area of the small bridge from the trail. Best bet is Pleurotus ostreatus at the moment.

Put up what sounded like a Mistle Thrush from the riverside towards the copse at Hayse Farm.

I then had a lovely chat with a kind lady from the Bourneside Oast, who said that the College Fisheries people had said that she had the most diverse stretch of river, not straightened as perhaps it had been further down.

Jackie and had put up No Hunting signs on the corners of their property.

But no sign of suitable habitat for harvest mouse nests.