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03-03-2008, 11:25 AM
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Ginger mice?
Whilst moving some heaps of garden waste three little ginger coloured mice ran out. They were beautiful, shortish tails so not doormice...any ideas what they were? Thought I had seem most types of mice, but have never seen ginger mice before.
    
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03-03-2008, 11:32 PM
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Did you have your Ginger tinted glasses on , you know the ones like rose tinted
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04-03-2008, 08:50 AM
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Might they be field mice - think they are bigger?
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04-03-2008, 09:24 AM
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They could be thngs that out here are called mulot which are in fact field mice but very small ones.
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04-03-2008, 09:36 AM
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Harvest mice are TINY, and have very long tails. Yellow-necked Field Mice are like Wood Mice, but very gingery.
They are also quite agressive if handled. When we get non-House Mice indoors we tend to assume they are Wood Mice, but Field Mice can be hard to tell apart. Su
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04-03-2008, 09:52 AM
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oh dear, confused.com
they were the quite big for a mouse, made more so by the fact that when they ran away they seemed to be very low to the ground and this made them look flat and broad. They were distinctly ginger in colour. Any one have a www address for viewing native mice? did a google yesterday but got mice forums and junk...got mad and gave up. what does a wood mouse look like?
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04-03-2008, 09:57 AM
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Wood mice
wood mouse - Google Image Search Field mice field mouse - Google Image Search Harvest mice harvest mouse - Google Image Search Hope that helps.
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04-03-2008, 09:59 AM
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Low to the ground, flat and broad and shortish tails, ginger colouring.
Not a Mouse at all. Try VOLE (we have loads living in and around compost heap on lottie). Can never remember which is which (we have Bank and Field) one has shortish tail, the other virtually none (so you can't tell if they are running forwards or backwards!!). I'm guessing with tails they are FIELD VOLES LCG ;-))
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04-03-2008, 12:25 PM
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Are you sure they weren't someones escaped hamsters Headfry?!
Here's a link to a bit about bank voles & field voles. BBC - Science & Nature - Wildfacts - Bank vole Field Vole
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04-03-2008, 12:36 PM
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Deff not bank voles, hamsters- lol
I almost posted that they looked more like hamsters, but thought I would get odd replies!!!! similar colour though. need to go looking for them again. They had made nests of grass and odd bits of carpet fibers- so very sweet. I feel quite guilty for trashing their homes.
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04-03-2008, 01:34 PM
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04-03-2008, 01:40 PM
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Shrews are small (or very small) black and with obvious long snouts. Voles are pretty chunky - certainly significantly bigger than mice.
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04-03-2008, 01:42 PM
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I knew they are small lcg, but the one on the link I posted is a light brown colour?
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04-03-2008, 02:23 PM
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They sound like the field mice we had at out old house. They actually got quite tame. Harvest mice are small but very much more common than reported. You aren't supposed to see them much up here - I've only seen them once. However, a farmer friend collects owl droppings from under a tree on his farm and sends them off for analysis. There's always masses of harvest mice in there. (Maybe that's why we don't see them - the owls eat 'em!)
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04-03-2008, 06:16 PM
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SueA's 2nd link with the field vole seems to fill your description??- did you miss the link? I thought it was the end of the first one originally!!
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05-03-2008, 01:01 AM
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Just had a bl@@dy field mouse run across my foot, under the desk...!!! Aaaaaagh!!!
 Not scared of them per se, but that furreaked me out!!Cat must have brought it in to 'play with' and lost it  It's disappeared under the big TV cupboard in the corner now...
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