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Sacha writes:
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| Neither of us who saw it - adults, that is - think it's a house mouse! Its
| back was very dark and paled only very slightly on the flanks. Ray suggests
| it might have been some kind of shrew but it was smaller than a house mouse.

House mice vary considerably in colour. What was its tail like,
because that is the easiest way of distinguishing many of those
"mouse like" animals?

The only two British ones significantly smaller than the house mouse
are the pigmy shrew (common) and harvest mouse (rare and wrong colour),
but it could have been a young animal.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.