The monitoring at Roadford Lake is part of the National Dormouse Monitoring Programme and takes place in May and September.

Last year the Trust also entered Wimbleball Lake into the scheme where recent coppicing has provided a good habitat for dormice. Thirty boxes were put up in 2009 but so far we are yet to record any presence at Wimbleball Lake barring one empty nest in early 2009.

Both sites will be surveyed again in September and results will be put on the conservation pages of our website.

Along with the dormouse monitoring on International Biodiversity Day new bat boxes were also put up at Burrator Reservoir. One third of the total amount of boxes was erected as part of a new scheme with South West Water and the Devon Bat Group. Further details of this new project will follow in the next few months.