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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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Image Taken on 05 Oct 2024 at 08:33    Image of day on 13 Nov 2024

At the peanut feeder where we sometimes see a Vole eating the nuts, we here see a Fieldmouse (Wood Mouse) taking advantage of the same easy-to-find food.


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Image Taken on 26 Dec 2011 at 16:22    Image of day on 27 Jan 2012

Only 6 minutes after the last recorded bird visit the evening gloom attracts out the first fieldmice (wood mice).


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Image Taken on 08 Jun 2010 at 23:19    Image of day on 22 Jul 2010

'If I kiss you will you turn into a mouse, or me into a slug?'
(Genuine single frame).


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Image Taken on 22 Jan 2011 at 17:38    Image of day on 10 Mar 2011

'Spring' is in the Air


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Image Taken on 30 Oct 2007 at 19:36    Image of day on 03 Dec 2007

We can see that some of there pyracantha (firethorn) berries have already been nibbled.


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Image Taken on 25 Jul 2011 at 23:39    Image of day on 06 Sep 2011

2 minutes later - after the showing off, the reward?


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Image Taken on 23 Jan 2007 at 18:14    Image of day on 30 Jan 2007

The apple is still attracting the gymnasts of the fieldmouse (wood mouse) population.


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Image Taken on 27 Sep 2006 at 02:22    Image of day on 16 Oct 2006

The fieldmice (wood mice) are still enjoying the glut of fruit.


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Image Taken on 02 Oct 2025 at 02:12    Image of day on 15 Nov 2025

A currently rare sighting of a Fieldmouse (Wood Mouse) at the hedge bottom.


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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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