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15-03-2010, 08:07 AM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: On the southern boundary of the Lake District National Park.
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| | | Re: Wood Mice
I think you've been stringing that poor mouse along.  |
15-03-2010, 09:08 AM
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| | | Re: Wood Mice
Good ones! could it be a rat maybe who is doing this? surely a little mouse cant pull all that cord along into the trap (along with the tape in there) and then nick the cheese and get out again? funnily enough Sat night put the trap back up there and something had stuffed one of the entrances to the trap with insulation from the attic  I put up there again last night with cheese and it had got in and taken the cheese and got out again as it seems to have now broken the trap!
I did catch a mouse in another trap last night! |
15-03-2010, 09:23 AM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: On the southern boundary of the Lake District National Park.
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| | | Re: Wood Mice
It'll have been a mouse dragging what he/she considerd nesting material into a secure place. You could say it was doing it of its own free will and a cord but that would be labouring the point on a dullish Monday morning.
I'm not familair with your design of trap but can only suggest some material has jammed the one way entrance allowing travel in both directions. |
15-03-2010, 10:31 AM
| | New Member | | Join Date: Mar 2010
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| | | Re: Wood Mice
Just out of interest are Wood Mice nocturnal? I only ask as I caught one in the garage the other night and just let him out in the garden as it was too late to take him anywhere else.
3 days later I could see him looking for food out on the lawn in broad daylight, I got pretty close and threw some breadcrumbs at him and he started eating them. Im a bit concerned that it was a baby and as it has been born inside and never been out that it doesnt know to stay hidden in the daylight, we do get cats in our garden and our dog nearly had him the other day when I was watching him eating but luckily he ran off and I grabbed the dog! |
15-03-2010, 11:08 AM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: On the southern boundary of the Lake District National Park.
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| | | Re: Wood Mice
Yes, very much nocturnal but will come out in the daytime, especially when food is available under bird feeders. They move into our house at the start of the winter and depart in the spring although there's always an exception!
We have a drystone wall at the end of the garden and the Woodmice and two Vole species use it for secure cover. The Field Voles do not use it so much as the Bank Voles but they and the mice regularly appear to scavenge under the feeders in the trees. | | | |
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