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Help-Appeared this morning Front garden-Seen a field mouse in back garden a month ago

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Hi @jim.mcquarrie  and welcome to the forum :)

    Well, that's not been done by the field mouse, that's for certain.  :)

    Have you got a bamboo cane or similar to poke down it and see how long the tunnel is?

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Certainly something much bigger than a field mouse.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • jim.mcquarriejim.mcquarrie Posts: 6
    Put my hand down about 6" dead end-about 4" diameter
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    I would say a rat hole.
  • jim.mcquarriejim.mcquarrie Posts: 6
    Buying a couple of Mouse traps today
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Mouse traps won't do it ... you might catch the field mouse but you don't want to do that do you?  You want to get the rat/s.   They're too big to be caught in a mouse trap.  

    This is the sort of thing you need 

    https://www.ebay.co.uk/p/25031180024?iid=133489725393

    The blocks of 'bait' will prevent it being taken by rats to store somewhere that it could be found by a child or a pet.  

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • jim.mcquarriejim.mcquarrie Posts: 6
    Was thinking that-Don't want to kill Wee sleekit cowrin' timorous beastie
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    As it's a dead-end, it could just have been a fox digging for worms or larvae.  See if it gets 'worked on' by the culprit over the next few days.
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • jim.mcquarriejim.mcquarrie Posts: 6
    Hi bob The Gardener-Get Foxes all the time
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    jim.mcquarrie said:
    Hi bob The Gardener-Get Foxes all the time
    Aha ... then that could be it ... do you have a night vision trail camera?

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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