Help needed to identify woodland creature

[treadlightly]

I wonder if anyone could help me identify something I saw in the woods today.

I was in oak/beech woods in the Chilterns and came across what seemed to be a nest made of leaves which had two furry tails sticking out of it. The nest was about three foot off the ground.

Then as I watched an animal came along and got in, crawling along branches above my head and then down to the leaves. It was like a cross between a squirrel and a mouse, with a bushy tail and slightly protruding eyes. I'm sure it wasn't a squirrel, I see enough of them. I've tried to identify it by comparing it with pics of dormice, wood mice and voles and nothing seems to fit.

No photo's I'm afraid, it all happened too fast.

 

[Mesquite]

Sounds like a Glis glis

 

[Shewie]

Sounds like a Glis glis

They're in the UK are they Steve ? Looks like a jungle critter

First hit on google suggests they were released in Hertfordshire, would love to see one but there's not much meat on it by the looks

 

[ex-member Raikey]

found this relating to pest control in Bucks

http://www.pestcontrolbucks.co.uk/glis/

 

[treelore]

my money would be on a edable door mouse.....thet nest at that hight and group together over the winter. see them quite often when i'm coppicing in the woods....

 

[ex-member Raikey]

my money would be on a edable door mouse ....

AKA GlisGlis it appears,..

small squirrel , bulging eyes comes up a lot when describing them,..

personally never heard of one,...

 

[treadlightly]

Yes, it was a glis glis. It fits the description perfectly and the wood was in the middle of the area they are found. Thanks very much guys.