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Mammals - Fieldmice (also known as Wood Mice) Page 19

Image Taken on 06 Feb 2010 at 06:39 Image of day on 17 Mar 2010

3 successive frames show what we assume is just the one mouse removing 3 hazelnuts from the site over 2 minutes (the middle frame was poor).

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Image Taken on 12 Oct 2011 at 04:57 Image of day on 26 Nov 2011

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Image Taken on 28 Sep 2011 at 03:01 Image of day on 14 Nov 2011

A cherry pip gets taken away for the fieldmouse (wood mouse) to bite open for the kernel

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Image Taken on 28 Sep 2011 at 03:56 Image of day on 14 Nov 2011

This time the fieldmouse (wood mouse) carries off a whole cherry!

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Image Taken on 15 Apr 2006 at 22:50 Image of day on 25 Apr 2006

This night camera kit has been relocated to a corner of the field near a hole in the netting. No rabbits - yet! But on the first night of use this Fieldmouse (Wood Mouse) was peeked carrying off a whole peanut kernel.

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Image Taken on 30 Apr 2008 at 01:02 Image of day on 14 May 2008

Now the bird breeding season is upon us we will ensure that no more whole peanuts (that might choke a nestling) go out - the grits get sieved for the next few months! So here is a last 'fieldmouse (wood mouse) with peanut' for a while ...

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Image Taken on 28 Mar 2008 at 19:34 Image of day on 18 Apr 2008

Mrs. Fieldmouse (Wood Mouse) doing an evening shop for potato? The white streak in the foreground is a bit of grass blown in the wind.

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Image of day on 17 Dec 2005

The fieldmice (wood mice) are back at the main feeding station, here carrying off potato peel.

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Image Taken on 07 Mar 2010 at 18:28 Image of day on 11 Apr 2010

Rowan berries seem to be left till last, but the mice systematically clear the site of them so they can't be 'that' bad.

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Image Taken on 16 Oct 2012 at 18:49 Image of day on 19 Nov 2012

Make up your own caption!

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Image Taken on 05 Sep 2013 at 20:58 Image of day on 13 Nov 2013

Fieldmice (Wood Mice) at both ground level sites have started leaping about. Enjoy the shadow of the leaping mouse, perhaps 'guarding her honour' :-)

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Image Taken on 12 Oct 2010 at 23:03 Image of day on 08 Dec 2010

Despite the ravages of leaf miner moths on the horse chestnut trees (of which conkers are the seed), we have a fair crop of conkers this year. The mice had quite a few goes at getting through the tough skin and this was the most fun image we caught of them trying.

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Image Taken on 26 Jan 2010 at 18:27 Image of day on 03 Mar 2010

We often find chewed fruit stones with their kernels removed, but don't remember such a graphic illustration that this mouse is more interested in the kernel in the fruit stone than in all the fruit lying around it. Perhaps it likes 'nuts' as much as we do!

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Image Taken on 23 Nov 2010 at 19:14 Image of day on 19 Jan 2011

Lets get really stuck into this feast ...

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Image Taken on 27 Aug 2010 at 22:46 Image of day on 18 Oct 2010

Processing autumn's bounty means the wildlife can't move for peelings and rotten bits, so they clamber over.

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Image Taken on 21 Feb 2009 at 19:06 Image of day on 15 Mar 2009

'More grub than I could eat in a week!'

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Image Taken on 07 Sep 2008 at 01:41 Image of day on 23 Sep 2008

Reminds us of the Olympic Steeplechase - with water splash and slug for a barrier.

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Image Taken on 18 Feb 2010 at 00:16 Image of day on 21 Mar 2010

Looks a bit like a mountain climber with limbs and finger/toes spread for grip on this now slippery log.

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Image Taken on 02 May 2008 at 22:08 Image of day on 17 May 2008

At the other camera rooks moving the logs sometimes blocks the beam, blocks the camera, or as here generates an interesting new view.

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Image Taken on 24 Sep 2012 at 20:54 Image of day on 04 Nov 2012

A demure fieldmouse (wood mouse) clambers up the side of the stone.

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