I found them like that in the Autumn and left them to it for the winter since the birds didn't need the box. By spring though the box was filthy and took a lot of cleaning for the nesting season so I won't be letting it happen again.
Your a good person. Many people would have evicted them 😢😡
That's another great pic @wild edges. I seem to have a new mouse coming into the feeders which is great. They have the run of the back fence with all it's hiding places. I miss the little one that used to pop in and out, sharing with the birds. I know what killed it too
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
We used to have some very confiding wood mice in the garden but they're all very spooky under the new cat regime. I took this with a wide angle lens from about as close at the picture looks.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
That's a beauty of a shot @wild edges. Mine are mostly taken from inside the house, but I used to watch old mouse regularly popping in and out of the feeders during the day when I was in the garden.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
We had a family of woodmice in this garden but the neighbours got a new younger cat 😔 it took him a while to learn that this garden was not part of his territory .., even if OH saved his life when he had a chicken bone stuck in his throat.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
OMG, even the field mice are prettier in Britain than in Texas. Ours are a dull gray color. I have plenty of them on our rural getaway cabin property. We set out baits in the cabin and seem to have gotten rid of the ones that had been living in the cabin while it was empty (the neighbor said that was nearly a 2-year period). But I dont do anything with any signs of them outdoors there. I find mice kind of cute; rats.....not so much. Rats really bother me, but we have not seen a single sign of a rat in or around the cabin.
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I seem to have a new mouse coming into the feeders which is great. They have the run of the back fence with all it's hiding places.
I miss the little one that used to pop in and out, sharing with the birds.
I know what killed it too
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Mine are mostly taken from inside the house, but I used to watch old mouse regularly popping in and out of the feeders during the day when I was in the garden.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.