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Mammals - Fieldmice (also known as Wood Mice) Page 20
Image Taken on 16 Feb 2013
at 17:58 Image of day on 01 Apr 2013
A little fun for April Fools day - but a genuine un-fudged single frame
The Fieldmouse (Wood Mouse) on the ground looks like it is taking evading action
to avoid the incredible stretched out nest mate about to land.
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Image Taken on 05 May 2007
at 21:23 Image of day on 19 May 2007
A fieldmouse (wood mouse) tucking into one of last years frozen cherries
we stored for the animals.
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Image of day on 13 Feb 2005
A Feast - a whole corn grain.
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Image Taken on 10 Jun 2007
at 21:12 Image of day on 26 Jun 2007
You can see the nibble marks where this fieldmouse (wood mouse) eats the
flesh off this piece of apple peel.
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Image Taken on 24 Sep 2010
at 19:40 Image of day on 16 Nov 2010
Sticky fingers (well paws anyway)!
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Image Taken on 24 Sep 2019
at 22:19 Image of day on 14 Nov 2019
The Blackberry fruit season is upon us with enough to make a batch of Blackberry Jelly.
So the pips and skins get strained out and offered to the wildlife that just LOVES it.
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Image Taken on 30 Aug 2006
at 21:21 Image of day on 05 Sep 2006
Fieldmouse (Wood Mouse) making a feast of a few corn grains the birds didn't
take.
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Image Taken on 07 Jan 2008
at 05:54 Image of day on 05 Feb 2008
Overnight storm over, a fieldmouse (wood mouse) comes out in the still black
hours to clamber through the fallen twigs to find a sodden grain
to eat.
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Image Taken on 01 Jan 2012
at 16:24 Image of day on 29 Jan 2012
Corn grain eaten like we would tackle of whole corn cob.
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Image Taken on 01 Jan 2012
at 17:02 Image of day on 29 Jan 2012
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Image Taken on 05 Nov 2013
at 17:17 Image of day on 24 Dec 2013
A clear view of the golden corn fragment about to be nibbled
to fuel this Fieldmouse (Wood Mouse) during the cold night.
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Image Taken on 16 Dec 2010
at 00:49 Image of day on 07 Feb 2011
Down in the undergrowth at night a ridiculously twee fieldmouse (wood mouse)
with a corn grain in it's paws.
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Image Taken on 12 Sep 2013
at 00:49 Image of day on 15 Nov 2013
Corn grain in paws, this fieldmouse (wood mouse) nibbles elegantly around midnight.
Meanwhile 3 slugs radulate their way along in the wet after rain.
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Image Taken on 27 Dec 2011
at 03:52 Image of day on 24 Jan 2012
3 creatures selecting their favourites from the menu.
A favourite food of the Fieldmice (Wood Mice): Corn grains
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Image Taken on 01 Sep 2017
at 03:48 Image of day on 21 Oct 2017
In the dark of the small hours, a Fieldmouse (Wood Mouse) feasts on a single corn kernel.
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Image Taken on 10 Aug 2010
at 01:55 Image of day on 22 Sep 2010
This time we can see no other explanation.
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Image Taken on 08 Oct 2007
at 01:12 Image of day on 09 Nov 2007
We have been putting out fresh twigs of various hedge fruits each
day for whatever wants. Here a fieldmouse (wood mouse) is nibbling at a single
elderberry in it's paws.
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Image Taken on 03 Feb 2013
at 18:09 Image of day on 14 Mar 2013
Twee or what?
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Image Taken on 06 Sep 2011
at 20:08 Image of day on 22 Oct 2011
Eat at the snack bar
A corn-grain makes a little feast for this fieldmouse (wood mouse)
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Image Taken on 23 Aug 2011
at 21:30 Image of day on 13 Oct 2011
Fieldmice (Wood Mice) have been all over the place last & this week and a bit
of rain (about 12mm = half inch) has brought out the slugs and snails
as well.
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