Oddly enough I found one floating in a bucket of water yesterday. The bucket wasn't near anything overhanging so I can only assume it's managed to crawl up the side (which sounds unbelievable). Or something else has dropped it in there (Kestrel, owl etc) which is also incredibly bad luck for the mouse. It was undamaged suggesting the former is the case, which is amazing to me.
My Mum's cat brings in live mice and then just lets them go! Mum has humane traps and she just releases them back outside. It is quite normal to see a little mouse wandering around. I saw one once scramble along Mum's sofa just under her legs. The other day Mum was woken in the middle of the night to something tickling her face,putting on the light she found a small mouse sitting on her pillow!!!!
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I had got close, but not close enough. I think the most defining difference is that Field Mice have a pale underside. Not good news for me; it looks like I am catching UK natives.
I must try harder to deter them and protect things like crocus bulbs in the greenhouse. They don't seem to do any damage in the garden itself.
I'm definitely not going to get a cat.
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Oddly enough I found one floating in a bucket of water yesterday. The bucket wasn't near anything overhanging so I can only assume it's managed to crawl up the side (which sounds unbelievable). Or something else has dropped it in there (Kestrel, owl etc) which is also incredibly bad luck for the mouse. It was undamaged suggesting the former is the case, which is amazing to me.
Mum has humane traps and she just releases them back outside.
It is quite normal to see a little mouse wandering around.
I saw one once scramble along Mum's sofa just under her legs.
The other day Mum was woken in the middle of the night to something tickling her face,putting on the light she found a small mouse sitting on her pillow!!!!
I had got close, but not close enough. I think the most defining difference is that Field Mice have a pale underside. Not good news for me; it looks like I am catching UK natives.
I must try harder to deter them and protect things like crocus bulbs in the greenhouse. They don't seem to do any damage in the garden itself.
I'm definitely not going to get a cat.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."