Island 2000 Trust Blog

We’ve been looking at some barns out in west Wight  and it seems they’ve been the roost of choice for at least one Little Owl. The pellets you can see in the picture show the characteristic black shiny beetle wing cases - Little Owls are master beetle catchers.

Here you can see us baiting the Dormouse hair-tubes with crunchy peanut butter and taping them up in likely spots - places where there is plenty of tangled cover with fruit, nut and berry-bearing species and honeysuckle in particular. We’ll be back in a week to check for little hairs and naked mice.