'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a....snoremouse! 😴🎄 🔊SOUND ON to hear the cutest little snores from this sleeping dormouse! Note: This video is from a dormouse surveyor with a licence to handle the animals for the National Dormouse Monitoring Programme, which aids their conservation. As a protected species, only trained and licensed individuals can handle or check them. #Wildlife #Nature #Conservation #Dormouse | Devon Wildlife

Come with us on a dormouse survey! Conservation officer Laura spent autumn checking boxes put up on our nature reserves to monitor dormouse populations. As a licenced surveyor, Laura checks for the presence of dormice and their nests. When they’re found, they are sexed and weighed and this data is input into the National Dormouse Monitoring Programme. Sometimes other residents have made their homes in the boxes, like the woodmouse in the clip. Why do we do these surveys? Dormice populations have