Three drowned mice

Legacy_user

We feed wild birds and have a couple of trays on the window sills. Seed is blown off and birds knock it off. We also have various pots of shrubs in the same area.
Two deep containers had stood empty for a few weeks and collected water. Yesterday I saw that three mice were floating. I assume they fallen off plants and had a watery demise. But, I'd have thought they would have been in hibernation by now.

oojeyboojey

islandman wrote: »

We feed wild birds and have a couple of trays on the window sills. Seed is blown off and birds knock it off. We also have various pots of shrubs in the same area.
Two deep containers had stood empty for a few weeks and collected water. Yesterday I saw that three mice were floating. I assume they fallen off plants and had a watery demise. But, I'd have thought they would have been in hibernation by now.

Well, mice don't normally hibernate so it's not a big mystery. I'm guessing they were housemice? I wonder why three of them ended up in the water together? Some kind of mousey mass-murder perhaps.

lynseydee

I guess that's the end of the nursery rhyme as we know it :rotfl:

susieb

I found a dead lizard yesterday, never seena wild one before alive or dead.

consumermonkey

we have had three mice caught in our traps so far this year!

mehefin

Reckon consumer monkey has sent them all east. We had 8 in one day. there seems to be a glut of mice this year.

~Chameleon~

Talking of hibernation, or lack thereof, I've got hedgehogs in the garden that just haven't bothered hibernating this year!

Think I'm going to have to start feeding them if the weather turns harsher as they won't have much in the way of fat stores if they've so far remained on the go all winter.

V_Chic_Chick

susieb wrote: »

I found a dead lizard yesterday, never seena wild one before alive or dead.

It was probably someone's escaped pet that succumbed to the cold - I'm not aware of any lizards that live wild in the UK.

As for the mice, they don't hibernate, and if you've killed that many then you must have a lot running around - put down some bait / traps pronto!

~Chameleon~

V_Chic_Chick wrote: »

It was probably someone's escaped pet that succumbed to the cold - I'm not aware of any lizards that live wild in the UK.

They do but only in the south of England. Some sort of wall lizard if I recall correctly.

susieb

We are in Norfolk, so not really classed as south, it had been run over, not sure if that was before or after it died, it was only little about 5 inches max to the tip of its tail.