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We keep the tubs of bird food in this cupboard and occasional get fleeting glimpses of the residents when we burst in on them unexpected.
Recently I found a dead mouse in one of the tubs** AND also .a live one moving about but very slowly. I scooped it out and let it walk slowly off behind the tubs over the earth pile it had excavated.
I don't know if that mouse survived but one of its offspring did.
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When the tub contents get depleted the gap is too large for the mice to jump back out. That's probably why the mouse died .trapped with plenty of dry food but no water.
So we now leave sticks and other paraphernalia in the tubs to assist their exit.
And they use them.
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Saved to forage for another day.
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Last edited on Sun Sep 19th, 2021 14:25 by Eric
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