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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JWN Andrewes" data-source="post: 3706713" data-attributes="member: 7131">April 14thThe Scotland trip was a prearranged family thing, so nothing was going to derail it. Since then we could have gone for the Bittern on Sunday, but a combination of me still recovering from a bad stomach bug, the bird seeming to be a bit hit and miss in showing, and Suffolk being a long and pricey day trip all mitigated against. If I hadn't seen the Marton Mere bird back in the nineties I might have been more tempted, but as it was we opted for something a bit less ambitious.So to last Saturday, when the boys, out playing behind the house, found a baby Wood Mouse, less than ten days after ticking the species up in Scotland!I tucked it out of sight to try and keep it safe from the area's various cats, but the boys reported it as back out again later, so I'd not give much for its chances.</blockquote>