Let's take a closer look at our fabulous dormouse boxes! The best habitat for hazel dormice is broadleaved woodland with either a thicket coppice structure or mature woodland with a good understorey. Dormice can also sometimes be found in mixed conifer plantations, especially those on ancient woodland sites. As their name suggests, hazel coppice provides an excellent habitat for hazel dormice, but other than hazel nuts, they also eat seeds, berries and mast of oak, holly, birch, ash, hornbeam an