Ornithology and wildlife around East Lancashire, Pendle hill and the Forest of Bowland, by Neil Mitchell

Tuesday 4 May 2010

Saw first orange tip and speckled wood butterflies today. Kestrel pair displaying, calling and mating, and found this little mouse/vole in the garden.














Its clearly a juvenile but its hard to distinguish features. Ears too small for wood mouse, nose too sharp for bank vole?, it may even be a house mouse. Whatever it is it must be very young or sick, because it was totally oblivious, even when I picked it up.
Sorry for out-of-focus shot, Jills mum took it, I was busily modelling the mouse.

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