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Mammals - Fieldmice (also known as Wood Mice) Page 29
Image Taken on 24 Jul 2014
at 23:45 Image of day on 07 Oct 2014
Hundreds of Fieldmouse (Wood Mouse) images this week (mostly not very
interesting as usual) they have started their huge show-off leaps again.
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Image Taken on 31 Aug 2007
at 21:36 Image of day on 27 Sep 2007
Wheee... Slight blur suggests it is moving fast right to left.
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Image Taken on 15 Sep 2022
at 23:53 Image of day on 25 Oct 2022
The Fieldmice (Wood Mice) are back with a vengeance, first here at the
camera site in the Meadow.
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Image Taken on 21 Dec 2012
at 17:11 Image of day on 25 Jan 2013
The shadow was only there for 1/1000 second, but the field mouse looks
like she is framing herself.
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Image Taken on 20 Aug 2007
at 19:30 Image of day on 14 Sep 2007
A hawthorn branch overhangs this camera site, and this fieldmouse (wood mouse)
is burrowing under the dropped twigs to get at the food.
Hawthorn berries obviously not first choice!
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Image Taken on 17 Sep 2020
at 23:13 Image of day on 03 Nov 2020
How Twee can you get?
In the hour before midnight this Fieldmouse (Wood Mouse) delicately nibbles a cherry
pip it has selected from jam-making fruit waste.
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Image Taken on 10 Feb 2011
at 23:12 Image of day on 20 Mar 2011
Not much food left as midnight nears, but enough for a nibble.
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Image Taken on 03 Jan 2009
at 17:34 Image of day on 24 Jan 2009
A single grain of corn is a feast for a fieldmouse (wood mouse).
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Image Taken on 11 Mar 2010
at 02:38 Image of day on 11 Apr 2010
Table manners Fieldmouse (Wood Mouse) style (single frame horizontally compressed):-
- Nibble your corn grain carefully between the paws.
- Head into the food and come out with whiskers covered in it
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Image Taken on 21 Sep 2011
at 03:49 Image of day on 05 Nov 2011
This apple is typically eating apple size - its reminds one how
tiny the world of the fieldmouse (wood mouse) is.
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Image Taken on 11 Nov 2012
at 17:40 Image of day on 15 Dec 2012
Ahhh. A fallen twig of berries (all right - cut and carried to
the site) makes a feast for this little Fieldmouse (Wood Mouse). The white
flower is cyclamen from the conservatory that got into the 'bait bowl'.
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Image Taken on 28 Mar 2011
at 21:20 Image of day on 26 Apr 2011
We tend to freeze our fruit crops 'as-is' rather than prepare dishes
en-masse, so we get things like cherry pips out-of-season
(quite apart from what we freeze just for the animals)
This mouse is nibbling the flesh off a pip.
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Image Taken on 16 Jul 2011
at 22:45 Image of day on 29 Aug 2011
Sweet little fieldmouse (wood mouse) gorging on corn and spoilt fruit.
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Image Taken on 04 Nov 2018
at 18:55 Image of day on 25 Dec 2018
A closer view of one of the above Fieldmice (Wood Mice) for a little extra 'tweeness'.
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Image Taken on 05 May 2011
at 22:38 Image of day on 28 May 2011
Fieldmouse (Wood Mouse) nibbling some tiny morsel of food held in it's paws.
The Lilac coloured flower is Ground Ivy.
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Image Taken on 20 Oct 2013
at 02:17 Image of day on 15 Dec 2013
Our images of mice mislead about their size - even a tiny sweet
chestnut husk is large enough to hide one
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Image Taken on 05 Dec 2010
at 17:46 Image of day on 26 Jan 2011
The tail seems to be pressed really hard against the body as this
mouse eats it's corn grain. While it does show that the tail is a
controllable and muscular appendage used as a 'fifth limb' when
climbing about, we have no idea why it has done this here.
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Image Taken on 22 Sep 2011
at 23:49 Image of day on 05 Nov 2011
A few damaged cherries from harvesting our favourite tree
set the scale for this fieldmouse (wood mouse).
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Image Taken on 21 Oct 2013
at 04:36 Image of day on 15 Dec 2013
How do YOU eat a corn on the cob?
At this scale a piece of fruit demands the same technique from a fieldmouse (wood mouse).
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Image Taken on 27 Mar 2015
at 21:28 Image of day on 14 May 2015
A single Fieldmouse (Wood Mouse) nibbling some sort of seed from the pointed end.
Presumably this is the easiest end to start before crunching your way along.
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