Sacha writes
On 21/8/08 21:52, in article , "Nick
Maclaren" wrote:


In article ,
Sacha writes:
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| This is a possible. The others are.........not!

Indeed. But "wood mouse" is a synonym for "field mouse", which are
the bigger ones (though marginally smaller than the yellow necked
one). You are almost certainly correct that it was a house mouse,
unless we have a new species in the UK!


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.

You would have remarked upon the pointed nose of the shrew. Voles do not
have prominent ears. Harvest mice are tiny but distinctly orange, like a
miniature red squirrel. Gerbil? (Our cats brought us one once - no one
claimed it so we kept it for years - can't remember how big they are
though). Juvenile of almost anything? - young mice have big ears,
because the ears don't grow as much during their lifetime as other bits
of them.


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Kay