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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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