KenM
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Good point Ken , Brown Rat would be an unwelcome addition to the Garden mammals list.
Speaking of rodents, one of our photogenic residents (I’m guessing Yellow-necked Mouse) caused me a bit of a fright today. I fired up the Yeti for the first time in 5 days in order to take a relative to a hospital 40 kms away, chuffed that it started first time after these recent sub zero days. To cut a long story short, a strange odour which got stronger on our return trip prompted a look under the bonnet on getting back to said relative’s place, all looked OK but some liquid had leaked so I popped into our regular garage hoping they weren’t too busy to check it out. It was diesel fuel, and on lifting off the cover over the engine ( I hadn’t thought of that..) see what sight greeted us! Not only had ‘cute Mickey’ (as my wife has christened the mouse) made a cosy nest, he’d nibbled through one of the fuel pipes too! Not so cute after all!
Minnie Mouse “under a bonnet” is old hat…as you should know Richard.
Pity the mouse wasn’t present for the photoshoot!…you could’ve asked it to say cheese.🤣