2 experimental adder homes - executive style available for use immediately. Today a hard working group of volunteers came onto the Moss to help Stephen and Nick build 2 large adder hibernaculums. As you can see from the pictures these consist of a frame made from birch lengths that is packed with bracken and twigs and then roofed with small lengths of birch, bracken and branches and brash. The idea is that the rotting down vegetation within a safe and secure frame offers a safe wintering site where the temperature and moisture levels remain relatively stable. It is probably too late for adders to use them this winter because they will already be in hibernation but they will have nicely settled down by next autumn and maybe they will appeal to the ready to sleep snakes then. Either way we are very grateful for the volunteers that worked so hard to build these structures and we aim to build more in the future but at least this ex[plains the 2 huge mounds that have appeared north of the entrance track to the car park. . There will be more felling this winter to make more material for these snug houses as well as for opening up the sunny glades along the track edge so keep watching.
