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17-11-2008, 08:28 PM
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| | | ?Mouse ID please
I am very much a beginner at all of this.
I photographed this little fella in the Lake District a week or two ago. I have been reading around and I suspect he is just a field mouse. But I would be grateful for the opinion of any of the many knowledgeable folk on this website.
I would like to think that it is a dormouse - his tail does look rather furry to me. But he doesn't look as orange as the pictures I have seen.
The pictures are rather blurry because he only came out at dusk and he was a fast mover - ISO 1600 and maximum aperture required.
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17-11-2008, 08:31 PM
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Welcome to WAB, Dan 
I think it's a house/ domestic mouse, Mus musculus.
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17-11-2008, 08:42 PM
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It looks like a vole to me (bank/field), but I don't see rodents very often.....
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Jon
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17-11-2008, 08:43 PM
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I agree a vole, but I would say Bank Vole 
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17-11-2008, 08:44 PM
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I would agree that it's a vole.
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17-11-2008, 08:47 PM
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Bank vole - reddish fur, clearly visible ears and short tail, but slightly longer than field vole. Not sure though - hard to see the tail.
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17-11-2008, 08:47 PM
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wow you lot are fast! I was revising my opinion to a dunno between field and bank and whoosh....
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17-11-2008, 08:50 PM
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Oh... not mouse. See, that's Dan's, fault giving me ideas of Mouse. Leading me astray like that...  
Just joking. Was it a first sighting of a vole for you, Dan?
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17-11-2008, 09:18 PM
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Wow!
Thank you everyone for your help and your welcome.
It is certainly the first time I have knowingly seen a vole. It is rather exciting. (we saw a red squirrel on several occasions at that spot, with his/her tufty ears).
What is it that tells you this chap was a vole rather than a mouse? |
17-11-2008, 09:28 PM
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Um... Jon Sadler, WildlifeRescuer and Hedge Witch
Probably a combination of fur colour and ear-length, as well as the general facial shape, I think |
17-11-2008, 09:32 PM
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I agree it's a Vole but whether it's a Bank Vole or a Short-tailed Vole is uncertain. A mouse tends to have a sharper more point head. |
18-11-2008, 07:52 AM
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Its a juvenile field vole.
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18-11-2008, 11:27 AM
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I think I agree. We didn't catch any Field Voles but I'm pretty sure it's not a bank vole. Not as dark as the one we caught/released.
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18-11-2008, 03:37 PM
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Field Vole (short-tail, blunt nose, small ears),
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Adam
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