Tales from the Tabs
‘Mouse-trapped! The greedy rodent that bit off more than it could chew’
The Daily Mail today reports on the ongoing battle of wits between Merseyside gardener Noel Blundell and the rodent he has dubbed ‘Supermouse’, which has an amazing talent for sneaking into the gardener’s backyard bird feeder.
‘Supermouse’, a three-inch-long field mouse, likes nothing more than to run up a nearby backyard branch and clamber into the apparently ‘squirrel-proof’ feeder once the seed drops below the feeder hole.
On many occasions, Blundell says the mouse has eaten so much nuts and oats while inside his feeder paradise that he has become too fat to escape, and needed the gardener’s help.
Feeder manufacturer Nature’s Feast sales executive Lauren Walker told the Mail: ‘In 20 years we’ve never heard of a mouse that has managed to get to one of our bird feeders in this way. We’d be interested to see him in action.’
