Garden activity ID help please
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- Woodpecker
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Garden activity ID help please
Had fun watching the icicles melt and birds flood the garden for food.
Usual garden birds, blue tits, great tits, sparrows, dunnocks, wood-pigeon, collared dove, goldfinch and 4 blackbirds, 4 robins... and highlight of the year...pr of siskins, first for our garden!
Also small rodents... house mouse I think.... though someone has said it looks like a small brown rat!! Can anyone add anything in terms of ID
Usual garden birds, blue tits, great tits, sparrows, dunnocks, wood-pigeon, collared dove, goldfinch and 4 blackbirds, 4 robins... and highlight of the year...pr of siskins, first for our garden!
Also small rodents... house mouse I think.... though someone has said it looks like a small brown rat!! Can anyone add anything in terms of ID
Last edited by Ian & Dianne Barnett on Sun Feb 05, 2012 6:37 pm, edited 2 times in total.
Ian & Dianne
Awe he looks cute nice shot
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- Goldeneye
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RATTUS NORVEGICUS
YES that looks very much like a young brown rat going off the snout and the scaly looking tail and no its not CUTE its a disease carrying expert that can hospitilise you if your not carefull with leptospirol jaundice (rat catchers yellows) take care round the area where you have seen the rat and if you come into contact with droppings or areas were its urinated make sure you wash your hands throughly as lepto is very unpleasant speaking from experience
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- Woodpecker
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Thanks for this Andy. This was right in front of the patio window!! Also one at the bottom of garden. I suspect the very cold weather brought them out but I suspect they are around at night. What do we do about discouraging them?
Should we call the council?
Really concerned about health and safety. Neighbours have kids.
Should we call the council?
Really concerned about health and safety. Neighbours have kids.
Ian & Dianne
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- Avocet
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house mouse.
It looks like a house mouse to me .
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- Goldeneye
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ID not easy given no good indication of size but looks small to me, but size of ears, very fine whiskers and 'pop-eyed' appearance make it a House Mouse, but surprisingly they are not common around my area, our random mammal survey operatives (cats!) very rarely catch House Mice, Wood Mice much more common as, unfortunately, are rats, incidentally our "rmso"s bring us 'gifts' of everything from rabbits and squirrels to voles and moles!
Brian
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- Goldeneye
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rattus or moggie
hi guys in respect of your rodent problem gary and brian think its a hoose moose im still sticking to my id of rattus no matter whos right or wrong if you contact the council they will send out a pest control officer and he should be able to id the rodent from droppings left better to be safe than sorry they would then put poision down to kill the culprits just to warn you cause not everybody is happy with that idea
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