What animal?

[ChristinaMarieUK]

Hi,

I came across a small hole about an inch and a half in diameter by one of the fences (with a concrete base) which seemed to be a tunnel into the neighbour's garden.

Any ideas what mammal or reptile or anything else could have made it?

[Dogghound]

Your hole is highly likely to have been made by a mammal (rodent), there are several burrowing species. what sort of area are you in? urban, rural, suburban. Is there woodland? farmland? By the size if it id probably go for a wood mouse which are more active burrowers than there close cousins the house mouse.

[Bushcraft]

I would second a woodmouse, I often see them going in and out of small holes. I often feed one at my local reserve, he likes a cashew nut each time I go.

Kris

[ChristinaMarieUK]

Hi Dogghound and Bushcraft

Thanks for your replies.

It's on the edge of Eccleston, St Helens very close to the East Lancs Road (A580) There's a playing field with some trees, but not a wood, then open farmland.

I hope it is a woodmouse! I like rodents and keep 4 gerbils.

[Dogghound]

Originally Posted by ChristinaMarieUK

Hi Dogghound and Bushcraft

It's on the edge of Eccleston, St Helens very close to the East Lancs Road (A580) There's a playing field with some trees, but not a wood, then open farmland.

I hope it is a woodmouse! I like rodents and keep 4 gerbils.

The name wood mouse is misleading the species does live in a wide range of habitats often away from woodland, i.e farmland, urban area's, as long its not a total marsh or a extreme alpine area you will get woodmice. So likely it was one.

[ChristinaMarieUK]

Yes. I've just found out that it has another name: Long-tailed field mouse.