Ich denke, er frisst vielleicht die Samen, die aus den Vogeltischen fallen, aber er verdächtigt auch Nr. 1 für “Wer meine süßen Erbsensämlinge gegessen hat”.
Von: Any_Consideration_73
Ich denke, er frisst vielleicht die Samen, die aus den Vogeltischen fallen, aber er verdächtigt auch Nr. 1 für “Wer meine süßen Erbsensämlinge gegessen hat”.
Von: Any_Consideration_73
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Good! As long as it stays in the garden 😆
I think it’s a field mouse, so it’s not likely to enter your home.
A cute little wood mouse! Definitely good in my opinion. A visiting cat left me a dead one recently and I was gutted. Poor little fella.
It’s a rare ginger! Perhaps harvest mouse. This guy deserves to be looked after!!!
P.s good because it means you don’t have rats!
Honestly he’s not hurting anything or anyone, let it do it’s harvest mouse things, you are lucky to have them
I would just like to say, I was never going to do anything. I’ve always said my garden was going to be for wildlife, not for vanity, I just wanted to know whether the role the mouse played was a good one, such as eating pests etc, or something to be wary of, I.e. he will eat all your seedlings etc.
I would be so stoked if I saw a mouse in my garden. Keep us updated
Better than one loose about the house
It’s a wood mouse, they eat seeds like you said and have no interest in coming inside
Just be careful with the bird seed getting into the floor. If house mice get feeding on it their numbers can increase quite easily. Seed fat balls can help reduce what’s going on the floor.
I have a couple in my garden, they climb up to my bird feeders and help themselves at night. They don’t seem to do any damage so I let them be.
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I’d try to limit the seed that falls somehow. One mouse isn’t going to do much harm but you don’t want to encourage more. They can become a nuisance in sheds and garages. Stop the food and they’ll move on
Definitely good
I have some which seem to live under the steps to the side of the patio. They generally seem to do no harm, although one year all my strawberries disappeared mysteriously and I later found them all in a pile behind a stone (before they had turned red which was quite annoying)
I think he’s a good mouse.
Looks like you have a mouse spawn point
My parents have always had a family of mice living under a bush by the bird feeder, never been a problem & none have moved into the house for winter. Leave them be, it’s just nature 👍
He’s so cute please keep him safe
Your little violets are beautiful!
We have a mrs mouse just the same. This year due to the dry weather she raided a lot of my pots (sunflowers and my peas especially), that little nose could smell the seeds just below the surface , I was having stern words , but the ground was so hard in the mini drought spell that I guess the soft compost was easy ground to search .
I always have a big bowl of fresh water out for the small birds and the other day as she was scurrying about I said ” if you are thirsty there is a big bowl of water there for you to use” , I went back in and to my astonishment she came out from under the bushes and went over and looked at the bowl of water . She apparently knew what I was saying. now coincidences aside, I hadn’t added water or anything to it even touched it , it was just a comment i made audibly in her direction. There are many neighbours with cats so our deal is stay outside and you are fine and I will keep solid shelters for you but no coming in the house . I also put out some small dog kibble in places , just as a tide me over for her in harder moments to deter her from maybe been hungry and looking to get inside the house and it’s worked so far. There are other tales i could tell about experience with the garden mouse but i’m not going to Beatrix potter the comments , they may be small but really if you do watch a busy garden mouse , they have a good intelligence to them for their small size.
As long as they remain a garden mouse, don’t cross the threshold and become internal home vermin I am fine with one about , but knowing there is one set up home be very conscious of your hygiene and recognise where they have been. I have a dog so we have a disinfectant spray for treating the stoney area where she wees , which I also use around areas where mouse has been loitering. Also if using dustpans and brushes outside use a mask so to reduce respiratory risks.
Rather a mouse than rats tbh
You have rats in your garden too 100% true
I have then at my alottment, and honestly, I love them. They hide near my mint. But then, I can’t bring myself to kill slugs and i encourage the black birds and robins to much all the berries. I suck as a gardner, but at least the animals like me (or they think I’m a chump)
Lovely little thing!
Neutral
Really cute!
One? I’ve counted ~20 and I’ve only been looking for less than a minute!
Wouldn’t last a minute in my garden , my dog wudnt be to kind to it 🤫🙏
Better than a moose loose aboot the hoose
Have quite a few in the garden, at least 5 or so. Most of the time they’re fine, lovely things to see when I open the compost bin or clearing some of the undergrowth.
Though one or two has taken a liking to some of my seeds and garlic, could definitely do without that.
For a moment I thought you had loads but I’m on my third brandy
I think you can’t expect to not have a mouse in your garden. That mouse looks like a beauty though.
He’s exactly where he’s meant to be 🙂
Good. We have a mouse, and baby, this year. Little perisher nibbled several holes in my bird seed bag. I love to see them though.
I put a wildlife cam in my garden to capture foxes & badgers, but what it mostly got was mice, voles and rats. It’s teeming with them!
Good, cute, native wildlife.
You’re lucky 😅 some types of mice are quite rare these days. It does look like a Hazel Dormouse and they’re being bred in captivity and released into forests via a special Dormouse program 🐭
rodents, including rats, are crucial for the ecosystem. many bees for example rely on abandoned mouse nests as homes.
Mice in the garden is a good sign, means the area is healthy and there are no rats present. Everywhere has either rats or mice, but you never get both, as rats will kill and eat mice
I fed a mouse in my coal shed for 2 years with a dog biscuit a day until it’s life came to a natural end!
It’s a Wood Mouse. Part of the garden’s ecology. Fine outside not so good in the house.
I’m happy to see mice in the garden. I don’t chase them away. When when they start shredding cardboard in the garage.
As long as they’re not in the house….
Good because they’re stinking cute! But bad if you don’t like them
I spotted a mouse in my shed the other day. I bought some humane traps to catch him and move him in. I opened the shed door and he was in the middle of climbing over a bucket, got a fright when I opened the door and fell in the bucket.
He was unable to jump out so I carried him in the bucket to a nearby woodland and let him go up there.
I live surrounded by fields. I had never seen any mice until one day a fat ball fell off the bird feeder. The mice appeared and ate that ball within 24 hrs and I’ve not seen them since. I assume they are always there
Field mouse, give them somewhere safe to live, they’re no threat to you or your garden
Good for a cat, bad for a human.
There probably isn’t a garden in the country that isn’t home to mice and other small rodents.