Laurence Edwards and Zane install a mouse box for hazel dormice in the rain, debating whether to place it among logs or on a tree. Online research reveals the box should strap to a hazel tree near vegetation, so they choose two large hazels on their site.
Even with Zane's nifty umbrella there, we just had to get out of the rain. It's absolutely hammering it down. The plants will water themselves today, and I want to go and take this little tiny mouse box and go and put it somewhere special in the woods. I don't want it close to my beehives. I don't want to attract mice in where I'm storing supers, but somewhere in the forest out of the way, there's going to be a nice little house for a mouse. Right, so me and Zane over lunch have been trying to decide whether it goes this way and you nestle it in with all little logs around it, or it goes that way. And we were working out because it's got these bits of wood, it must, it must sit there like that. And then we Googled it and realized that we were both wrong. You have to strap it to a tree like this. Who knew? A hazel dormouse, this is supposedly for. And it says try and find a nice hazel tree next to some vegetation, and we've got like the 2 most glorious hazel trees in the world. They are absolutely huge, so we're going to try and strap it to a tree and see if we can attract a hazel dormouse.
