Comments on The Greenwich Phantom: Greenwich Wildlife (1) The Kestrel

More on mousetraps - if you use the 'humane' sort ...

2008-07-13T20:29:00.000+01:00

More on mousetraps - if you use the 'humane' sort that don't kill, you need to take the captured mouse a long way away or it just runs back! (I've seen suggestions of one mile or even several miles). They then die a slower death from starvation or mouse bullying...

As I didn't fancy taking a mouse for a bus ride, I got the killing sort - you can get some that work like a giant clip so they're easy to set and you don't have to touch the mouse when you've caught it. (They're in B&Q or Deptford Market). Try Reese's Peanut Butter Cups as bait - you just put a tiny bit and eat the rest ;-)

Yep,I am just a little bit mouse-obsessed at the moment... Love the idea of the Great Tupperware Conspiracy!

Mouse/Rat problems? Want to rent a cat? One of min...

2008-07-13T08:38:00.000+01:00

Mouse/Rat problems? Want to rent a cat? One of mine is an expert mouser, currently catching about one a day, although you may have to dispose of the tails yourself, the only bit he doesnt eat, too chewy he says!

Mice,Problem is that poisons and baits that can be...

2008-07-12T23:08:00.000+01:00

Mice,

Problem is that poisons and baits that can be legally sold now only to make the mice a bit woozy. For those of you who are arnen't squeemish about these things, an old fashioned mousetrap is the best solution. For the more softhearted there are traps which capture them alive and unharmed. For both types of trap there's nothing that will attract mice better than a smear of peanut butter on a sliver of toast. But now I think about it, that just the sort of food that would trap me. Marnells on Old Dover Road at the Standard sell both type of trap.
Must go; the peanut butter in the kitchem calls to me me.

I claim no credit for any information I may impart...

2008-07-12T20:37:00.000+01:00

I claim no credit for any information I may impart.....the internet and the RSPB website should take all the credit....LOL

Maybe the mousey thing is a conspiracy buy the makers and stockers of various large plastic containers trying to drum up business during the current slowdown.......cue 'X-Files' music. Rememeber 'Trust No-one'

I bow to your greater wotsit, dazza.I am v. peeved...

2008-07-12T20:32:00.000+01:00

I bow to your greater wotsit, dazza.

I am v. peeved by the mouse explosion. I have just watched one fit-looking mouse mooching around my bathroom mid-afternoon, unbothered by my watching him from the kitchen. He was, I think, looking for my emergency supplies of rice and sack of bokhashi bran that he was trying to eat last night and which I have now relocated to mouse-proof containers. I have had to buy large mouse-proof containers for blimmin everything.

I have seen a Kesrtrel in my garden , swooping dow...

2008-07-12T15:19:00.000+01:00

I have seen a Kesrtrel in my garden , swooping down on an unsuspecting sparrow. Then of course there are the toads.....................

Never heard of a kestrel liking fish....they are m...

2008-07-12T12:39:00.000+01:00

Never heard of a kestrel liking fish....they are more of a Mammals and small birds type of carnivore.

Your loss of Goldfish could be down to the local magpie population which seems to have taken off......One for sorrow, 2 for joy, 3 for a girl and 4 for a boy.....etc.

I even saw a Magpie hounding a cat that had caught a mouse the other day. They are getting braver....LOL

We, also, have a booming mouse population so it might be that the hunters have moved where the food source is. I think the exploding mice thing is down to the amount of new buildings going up around us. The mice used to have the Petrol station land to live on and the Back of Malton Street in the Old Children's play area.

I won't even get started on the Foxes......I think they are lovely but I know that some see them as vermin.

That probably accounts for the disappearance of on...

2008-07-12T11:27:00.000+01:00

That probably accounts for the disappearance of one of my goldfish ...