Actually, it's a mystery mouse. Two days ago at my niece's feeder on the
hill west of Auburn, the birds were disturbed by a very large mouse who ran
down the branch they were on, shimmied down to the hanging feeder, snacked a
minute, then jumped to the feeder on a post nearby. He snacked there, made
his way back to the branch (again dislodging the birds) and went his way. He
was sandy brown with a white tummy and very round ears. Obviously not a
house mouse but didn't look like any of the mice on the Burke Museum PNW
mammals site. Not a rat (I know rats having lived with pair). Smaller than a
squirrel but larger than a chipmunk.
Thanks.
Rahne Kirkham
Federal Way, Washington
"I am in Love and out of Him I will not go."
C.S.Lewis "The Great Divorce"