{"id":6755,"date":"2021-04-25T11:33:01","date_gmt":"2021-04-25T11:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=6755"},"modified":"2021-04-25T11:33:07","modified_gmt":"2021-04-25T11:33:07","slug":"climbing-mouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/climbing-mouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Climbing Mouse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To encourage birds to find the camera nest box I put up some Sunflower seeds not to far away. The feeder is in the middle of a climbing Rose and is easy for small birds to get to. What I didn&#8217;t think about was that the rose gave little rodents a way to get to the feeder. And it didn&#8217;t take them long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" data-attachment-id=\"6757\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/climbing-mouse\/mouse-eating-sunflower-seeds-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/7D2_8801.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2048,1366\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Paul Marfell&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 7D Mark II&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Mouse eating Sunflower seeds&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1619081506&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;All rights 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I can see the tray from a first floor window but from the ground it is above head height and it can be a bit painful reaching past the thorns to clean it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The mouse has plenty of places to hide and breed, under stacked-up tiles, in a pile of bricks, under the shed, in plant pots and even inside a little burrow I have found under a Sage plant. I am OK with them as long as they stay out of the house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To encourage birds to find the camera nest box I put up some Sunflower seeds not to far away. The feeder is in the middle of a climbing Rose and is easy for small birds to get to. 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