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Dear All, Aug 31, 2008
Yesterday I hauled a load of Poplar wood and found a fancy mouse
nest (droppings just below nest). The usual mouse in these piles is
Gapper's Red-Backed and I have seen several this year along with their
usually untidy open nest. So I am reasonably sure the builder was some
other mouse.
The nest was roughly globular, about 15 cm in diameter measured from
outer sprigs or 12 cm measured from the relatively dense core, with a
small hole near the top and made of narrow thin strips of dead Populus
inner bark, which curls and tangles as it dries, packed with pappus from
a large Hieracium (Hawkweed) that is locally abundant there.
Yt, DW
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