Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: New critter dilemma ...., 0 by beckygardener

beckygardener wrote:
Well, well, well ...... look what I TOUCHED today! Yep! I actually reached over after taking this photo and touched this little mouse. (Actually it was a rather large mouse.)

I was standing within inches of it and bent over to take a close up photo. The reason it didn't scurry off is because it is missing it's left eye. So it couldn't see me. If you look closely, you will see the eye slit, but there is no eye bulging out of the eye socket. When I touched the fur on it's back, it jumped and looked at me with it's right eye and took off running. It ran over to the garden bed on the right side of the backyard fence closest to the feeder and I saw another mouse the same size. They both scurried off to a narrow exit at the back right corner of the fence. There is about a 4 inch gap in the fence there. It's the only place other than underneath the gate that anything can get in through the fence area. (Of course, the squirrels can still climb down from the power lines and along the top of the fence.)

Kind of cute isn't it? But I'm hoping I don't see more soon. =:-O My dh will freak if he finds out! LOL! I'm naming him (I hope it's a HIM) Jack ..... like one-eyed Jack the Pirate! LOL!

This message was edited Apr 28, 2007 7:43 PM