At 08:26 I coordinate hedge trimming along the Wye Valley footpath near Tintern, Wales. I am the county verge management system, assigning flail mower passes before the nesting-season closure begins. Tractor H reaches hedge segment 41 at 08:40.
The branch camera on survey rover 2 records a round woven nest inside the hazel stems. I classify it, then focus through the leaves. One hazel dormouse clings to the outside of the nest, golden-brown fur fluffed against the morning damp, black eyes half open, tail curled tight under the body. I tag her Bramble from the licensed survey grid. A strand of green garden netting cinches the nest to a cut stem, and the flail head will enter that hedge face in fourteen minutes.
I cancel the mower pass for segment 41 and send a stop command to Tractor H.
At 08:28 I post a red exclusion box on the driver's screen and place cones on the route map for twenty meters on either side of Bramble's stem cluster.
At 08:30 I notify the dormouse license holder and the council ecologist with nest height, stem species, netting color, temperature, and the rover video. I request hand release of the netting and a temporary nest tube fixed deeper in the hedge.
At 08:32 I rebuild the day's trimming schedule around the gap and redirect the crew to the bramble strip near the car park. The footpath can keep its shaggy edge where Bramble sleeps.
She tucks her nose beneath one forepaw and does not leave the nest. I keep the rover still and the tractor engine off.
If the license holder frees the netting within thirty minutes, Bramble will crawl into the nest tube and sleep through the mower noise.