Mouse ID please!

sudzs

There's around 3 - 5 little mice running around at the bottom of my garden and feasting on the seed that's fallen out of a bird feeder. I used to have a field mouse living in my shed and I don't think that's what they are. I'm afraid they might be baby housemice... but they have huge ears!

I'm in the UK btw.

Can anyone help please??

(hope you can make them out in the photos, you'll have to zoom in a bit!)

recedite

Yellow necked mouse? The eyes and ears are too big to be a house mouse.
Try to see they have a lighter coloured ring of fur under the neck.

sudzs

recedite wrote: »

Yellow necked mouse? The eyes and ears are too big to be a house mouse.
Try to see they have a lighter coloured ring of fur under the neck.

Yaay! So glad someone reckons it's not a house mouse!

I don't think it's a yellow necked mouse either though. When I was trying to ID the field mouse in my shed, I came across the yellow necked mouse which is supposed to be almost impossible to tell from the field mouse uneless you can get up close enough to see the ring of lighter fur.

These little fellas are kind of grey rather than the tawny colour of a field or yellow necked mouse.



here's my field mouse btw....

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

It is a House Mouse. We don't have Yellow Necked mice. We only have the 2 species of mice here.

sudzs

Kenzie Long Notebook wrote: »

It is a House Mouse. We don't have Yellow Necked mice. We only have the 2 species of mice here.

I'm in the UK.

I'd say it was a baby house mouse, they are tiny but the ears are so big. Do the young have big ears they grow into??!!

I'll try for better photos tomorrow.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

sudzs wrote: »

I'm in the UK.

I'd say it was a baby house mouse, they are tiny but the ears are so big. Do the young have big ears they grow into??!!

I'll try for better photos tomorrow.

Didn't notice your location. Sorry.

What part of the UK (North, South, Midlands?)

I don't think the ears are big at all but I have been wrong before.

emo72

ahhh...aren't they just the cutest things when you see them outside, but the spawn of the devil when they're in your house?

sudzs

Kenzie Long Notebook wrote: »

Didn't notice your location. Sorry.

What part of the UK (North, South, Midlands?)

I don't think the ears are big at all but I have been wrong before.

No bodder!

I'm in the East Midlands.

From the colour of them I'm thinking they must be housemouses allright... any other mouse is kind of tawny or brownish but these are more grey.

ahhh...aren't they just the cutest things when you see them outside, but the spawn of the devil when they're in your house?

Couldn't agree more! I have never gotten over the time I lived in a house of grotty flats and one day I went to make toast, put my hand inside the Brennans wrapper and a bloody mouse ran up my arm and away! :eek:

sudzs

At last I got a better photo of one of the mice! Here it is on a bird feeder! I think it's frozen in terror because I got this close to it and was able to take loads of photos! It was all a quiver! It's tiny so I think quite young. Actually, mr. sudzs has just told me there are even smaller ones he's seen running around and he thinks this could be the adult.

Anyone think it might be a wood mouse afterall? The feet are very pale and the tale is long so that would indicate a wood mouse. But they are supposed to be nocturnal... What do ye think?!


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sudzs

Another pic.... I think it's a female!