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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GDK" data-source="post: 1644393" data-attributes="member: 21712">John - I agree with this stance.  Although Im not as enthusiastic as you when it comes to seeing the lastest escapee.  Splitting category C is not necessary ofcourse, but I still think it is useful, and was interested that Isurus used the same cut off (which he used to bolster Cat A).  Let the grey areas stay grey.Here's an interesting sighting for you from 1983 - another Sea Lion.  Identified from photos as a bull Californian - present for some period on St Kilda.  There are a couple of photos and a letter in this months Mammal News.Regarding Harvest Mouse, Paul, I agree they do live happily in reedbeds.  I dont have a full answer to that one.  Presumably Stephen Harris and Sutcliffe & Kowalski considered this angle and dismissed it?  As a guess, maybe Harvest Mouse was much rarer in north west Europe as a whole at this time, and was simply absent from open grasslands within our 'idyllic' wildwood; being further south and east in Europe.  Hence the hypothesis that it travelled and colonised on the back of man.  And when it reached the channel there was water and this could only be navigated with human influence.  This is pure conjecture on my part, I dont know the answer or what the scientists mentioned above wrote as the answer and what swayed them into their thinking.  You would have to seek out the references in post 25 to fulfil your query further.    Cheers</blockquote>

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