No it's mighty mouse, or two to be exact! While Eden and I were baking bread this afternooon, I happened to look out of the kitchen window and saw something hanging on to the dried stems of the japanese anemone which end just under the bird table where the hanging wire nut container is for the blue tits. Now I know that I should have cut these down long since but I haven't had time to get round to it.
What I saw there was not a blue tit but a very tiny mouse which I think could be a woodmouse with it's long tail and great big beady eyes and big round ears. He was climbing up the dried stems towards the nuts and was about four feet off the ground. We watched him as he tried to work out a way to get at the hanging wire basket, but reaching a bit too far, he fell off onto the ground. Eden gave a shriek thinking he had badly injured himself because after all, it would be a bit like me falling from the roof of a two storey house.
We saw where he fell but he was up straight away and climbing up the bird table which was a bit slippery for him. Then we spotted another one climbing up the dried stems as he too, was after the nuts. The same fate overtook the second mouse but they were very determined and had quite a few tries to get at those nuts and also the squirrel box, but every attempt was unsuccessful.
Eventually, as we had been entertained by these two little creatures for a while, I threw half a dozen maize kernels out onto the ground (I know they like these because they ate the ones the squirrels dropped a week or so ago).
Sadly, I hope these creatures move on because we are fast becoming overrun. Quite a few of the neighbours keep rabbits, guinea pigs and various other pets in hutches and there is a very plentiful source of food for them, so they are multiplying at an alarming rate.
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