Harvest Mice

[watervole]

Via katlinel , the most gorgeous set of photos of our tiniest native mouse.

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[megamole.livejournal.com]

<3 especially photos 9 and 10.

[pennski.livejournal.com]

Amazing! Do you know which is the mouse with the big ears that jumps?

[watervole.livejournal.com]

NO idea. (You aren't thinking of gerbils are you?)

[pennski.livejournal.com]

Not unless they're running wild round the British countryside being brought indoors by our cats!

Wikipedia suggests it may be a wood mouse, a variant on the field mouse but without the ginger and white colouring.

[ssirienna.livejournal.com]

Squeee!

Sorry but those were adorable! Thank you very much for those - must show my daughter (if my ears can take the high pitched squeaking ;)

Her - not the mice ;-))

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

These are really very cute little mice! Lovely pictures indeed. Also I must say that this tiny mouse is quite rare here in the fields due to the pesticides. I can remember older people talking about bad damage caused by these mice - when they became "overpopulated".
Now we have mostly "water mice" - a big and nasty kind that destroys trees by eating their roots. My Tygr is an expert at catching them!