November 2010 – Loir again!

Our loir ‘count’ has reduced over the last few years and having only caught one last year we thought we had fixed the problem. However ‘loir cam’ spotted activity in the attic a few weeks ago so we had to take action. I created a new attic access hatch to allow the easy placing of traps. Just a few hours later I happened to glance at the computer screen to see a trap being dragged out of camera view by a loir!

While this was in many ways quite amusing we did of course have the last laugh as a few hours later the loir entered the trap.

In case you are not aware loir cause incredible damage to stone walls by burrowing between the stones eventually causing the walls to collapse. So you want to get rid of them!