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Image Taken on 24 Sep 2013 at 04:06    Image of day on 26 Nov 2013

Its no good - Fieldmice (Wood Mice) on their hind legs can look so twee.


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Image Taken on 30 Nov 2012 at 17:02    Image of day on 05 Jan 2013

Fieldmouse (Wood Mouse) practicing looking twee - not that it needs to practice


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Image Taken on 08 Sep 2012 at 04:01    Image of day on 24 Oct 2012

A little sweetie fieldmouse (wood mouse)


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Image Taken on 10 Sep 2012 at 03:46    Image of day on 24 Oct 2012

Another sweetie fieldmouse (wood mouse), undoubtedly on the lookout for danger.


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Image Taken on 29 Mar 2012 at 20:47    Image of day on 03 May 2012

This elegant Fieldmouse (Wood Mouse) made an appearance.


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Image Taken on 03 Sep 2011 at 00:09    Image of day on 25 Oct 2011

The Lookout? "Midnight, and all's well"
It reminds us of the classic pose of a Meercat, but in miniature.


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Image Taken on 09 Oct 2010 at 00:51    Image of day on 13 Dec 2010

A Twee fieldmouse (wood mouse) entry for this month. Is the lean a new fashion?


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Image Taken on 17 Sep 2010 at 19:27    Image of day on 11 Nov 2010

Twee fieldmouse (wood mouse) - with apple.


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Image Taken on 16 Jul 2015 at 03:22    Image of day on 16 Sep 2015

A pristine Fieldmouse (Wood Mouse) nibbling a corn grain in the small hours of the morning. Just how twee can you get?


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Image Taken on 29 Aug 2010 at 02:40    Image of day on 18 Oct 2010

At another site, also loaded with fruit, we have the winner of the 'Twee fieldmouse (wood mouse) of the week' competition.


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Image Taken on 07 Sep 2015 at 04:11    Image of day on 09 Nov 2015

The mouse that got away (from the cat 2.5 hours earlier) nervously scanning the surroundings on hind legs.


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Image Taken on 16 Jan 2008 at 20:40    Image of day on 14 Feb 2008

After a flood to almost the log top the previous night, scrapes left by other 'visitors' are still filled with water making this little mouse go paddling for a meal.


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Image Taken on 24 Oct 2010 at 18:40    Image of day on 27 Dec 2010

More from the twee mouse competition folio.


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Image Taken on 14 Nov 2010 at 19:24    Image of day on 09 Jan 2011

Fieldmouse (Wood Mouse) with paws so clean you can see them shadowed against the white fur.


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Image Taken on 25 Sep 2010 at 03:55    Image of day on 22 Nov 2010

"Mr. DeMille - do you prefer my front or profile views?"
Consecutive frames of a ludicrously twee mouse.


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Image Taken on 21 Jan 2011 at 18:36    Image of day on 10 Mar 2011

Some of these mice really know how to look twee!


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Image Taken on 19 Nov 2012 at 16:31    Image of day on 18 Dec 2012

Here we can see that the Fieldmouse (Wood Mouse) tail is longer than the body, at least when the mouse is comfortably settled for a feed as we see here.


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Image Taken on 16 Oct 2013 at 04:58    Image of day on 11 Dec 2013

Happenings in the Night: Whee!


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Image Taken on 03 Jun 2007 at 21:21    Image of day on 16 Jun 2007

Can I swim? Of course fieldmice (wood mice) can swim but dry is better. A storm on 3 June delivered 31mm of rain, most of it in the 2 hours before this photo. Water is streaming through the site. The vignetting blur is a fun side effect of a drenched camera window.


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Image Taken on 01 Nov 2010 at 19:11    Image of day on 30 Dec 2010

A bumper apple crop this year means plenty of windfalls left for all comers night and day.


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