Why they released 1014 Tiny Mice to a London Park
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Which park ? I would like to see it on google, just for fun.
Thank you for releasing these beautiful little creatures into this park. These mice are cute and it was lovely seeing them being released into the wild where they can breed and increase their population.
#birdbathjamaica
@@C172Pilotdude The area is called Marnham Fields in Greenford UB6.
Rob, that was so lovely. It brought tears to my eyes, seeing how people really cherish these little animals, when they get the chance. They seemed terribly tame, though - I hope they'll have enough wits to avoid foxes, cats and other predators 😮 I love this project - such wonderful people.😊
Ahh thank you Annie, I'm so pleased you could see what it meant to the people. From what I understand harvest mice are a little on the docile side. Their role in the food chain is inevitable, we just have to hope that a population can be established. Releasing them at this time of year gives them the best possible chances too :)
Owls are good at catching them...fox are mostly night time people so id say they must be diurnal not nocturnal but maybe thats because of how they were raised. The doormouse is also going rare and also tiny and chubby. We found a baby shrew one time tangled in grass and screaming and my kids could hear the screaming ..he was instantly very tame and I made him a little felt ball to curl up in so I wouldnt swaush him and fed him egg yoks every two hours and then worms which he ate and turns out he was an adult ..but also an invasive species so we had to not put him back in the wild. One of the best animals we rescued...
@@Padraigp Are there many owls in that environment? One does feel sorry for the wee animals at the bottom end of the food chain.
Dormice are also almost unbearably cute. I dare say there are some dedicated individuals caring for them, too.
A lovely story about the shrew. I hadn't realised that there was an invasive type in the UK. You'd really have to wonder how it got there. Regardless, I think the care and thoughtfulness of your rescuing it was a wonderful act of kindness.
@@anniehill7846 im in ireland so it was probably a british shrew! Lol! I suppose if theres mice then owls will show up. I have owls where I live in ireland and I gcás to see some recently. Once when I mother swooped past me and turned her head full circle to warn me off from her babies and another ...possibly a different type of owls who were taking off together flapping wildly but totally silent...it was amazing... my cat brought me to the feild and showed me the owls...we also have foxes and I think a fox got my cat and his dad...or his dad may have been sick as he was old.. and a big tom cat chasadh my kitten onto the road where a car got her i think. It is a mad life and so much death outside as well... worms and birds and bugs and spiders eating flies and cats eating birds ans foxes eating cats...its ncie to go out about 1 am and see whats going on in the réal world ...same things as people saw in medievil times and neolithic times...all our progress and at the end if the day we are still the same really.
@Padraigp Actually, as a long time fox-exclusive researcher (six years in fact), I can say that foxes don’t actually prey upon cats. In fact, a negative fox/cat encounter is exceedingly rare, and is almost always initiated by a cat. Foxes aren’t very territorial towards other species at all (as long as they’re not threats,) and they’re a non-aggressive species in general. The red fox, the largest fox on earth, isn’t much larger than a cat. Foxes, being opportunistic hunters, will not attempt to hunt and kill a creature their size which can deal a fatal amount of damage to it. Instead, the vast majority of fox/cat interactions are actually ones of indifference where the two animals go separate ways. In my research, I’ve personally watched a fox and a cat interact on many occasions, and never in my life have I seen or heard of an adult cat getting preyed upon by a fox.
It’s a common misconception that foxes prey upon cats due to coyotes being mistaken for foxes, seeing as how coyotes regularly kill small dogs and cats. On top of this, foxes have been known to chase cats away from a den site due to the presence of kits, regardless of the danger that a cat poses. Foxes also get a bad rep because they’ll catch small kittens seeing as how they naturally eat small mammals.
In reality, foxes and adult cats (or older kittens) rarely have negative conflict, and when it does happen, the fox will almost always run when pit up against an animal that’s relatively similar in size.
I know this was a lot, I just feel it’s important to share this information seeing as how this is one of the most common (and most detrimental) misconceptions about foxes that I’ve come across. I appreciate you taking the time to read this, and I hope you have a great day.
Wonderful to see
They used to be common before their habitats were stolen !
Keep up the good work and support those that are doing all this for the future
Hopefully they'll be common once again with projects like this!
Well said.
I didn't think these creatures were rare in the UK! I am glad they are getting reintroduced back into the London area!
Yeah they are nationally rare, but there some populations of them dotted about. Exciting to see where this reintroduction goes!
@@LeaveCurious oh, interesting!
When we say "rare" I think we should say rarely seen, they are very difficult to see, and usually the only indication of their presence is the small ball like nest built on grass stems. We often class things are rare, when was the last time you saw a Badger? Yet there are Badgers all around us, they just choose not to be seen.
Love seeing this happening in London!
Yeah it’s really encouraging!! Cheers Paul
A Wonderful Story Rob - Thank you Volunteers - Can’t happen without You 💖- Cheers from 🇨🇦
Ahh yeah, its the people that really make this project special!
@@LeaveCurious Yes, Who knows, maybe one I’ll be there as a volunteer 🙏🏼
Great video! I didn’t realise they could live in that sort of environment (I’ve only ever seen pictures of them in wheat fields!) but actually we have lots of that sort of green messy border here, maybe they are already living there! 😀
Yeah I think they like anywhere thats natural and has a nice 'overgrown' look to it, lots of structural diversity for them to live in. You should get out and look for signs :) Cheers!
Mice are adaptable after all
Our back garden is left to itself during the summer months and we have lots of Harvest Mice living there, I'm forever rescuing them from our cats jaws.
@@morgsta0676 Oh blimey, thats sadly the way it goes with cats. Nice that you have wild garden though!
@@LeaveCurious The garden seems to sustain itself, there are plenty of fruit bushes and trees, plus brambles and rotting logs. Sheet's of plywood where the slow worms congregate under in the summer, a small pond for newts. I think the most important parts are areas that are impenetrable by anything bigger than the fox. Nothing is considered a pest and all are left to themselves.
Harvest mice have recently become my favorite animal, but truthfully... I don't even know what they fully do! I think it's because they're very cute :^) But it's awesome to learn more about these small guys that can make a big impact.
They're certainly cute, small and a little unawares... this leads to them being quite an important part in the food chain, feeding a wide variety of species above. As such their lifestyles reflect this life fast die young strategy.
We need more cats to curb these mice infestation
Oh my, they are so tiny, and rather cute to look at
They are indeed. You barely feel like you’re holding one when you do!
You mentioned that one of the problems is fragmentation of habitat, wouldn't releasing mice in Ealing mean they are an isolated population?
There’s a much wider scheme to reintroduce them to the wider area, that 1000 haven’t just gone into this one site - I’m sure Sean might pick this comment up with a bit more detail.
An isolated population is better than no population
Surely this is why they were mixing the local males with the Scottish females - to get more genetic diversity?
One of the key stages of scoping whether the project was feasible was whether the we had suitable, sustainable and connected habitats. We identified six sites that met these criteria all connected by green corridor for the mice to disperse and each metapopulation to eventually connect with each other via the Grand Union Canal-sides and also railway embankments. So in theory this should lead to a healthy, self sustaining population. We followed Natural England guidelines on species translocations or reintroduction. Fingers crossed it works but early signs are promising.
@@EalingWildlifeGroup
Thank you for the reply, i hope they thrive in their new home, its always good to see wildlife making a comeback.👍
This is just the cutest 🥰lovely to see the little guys climb on the grass & nettle🐁
They are very impressive climbers on flimsy vegetation! Cheers Moss!
Great and educational video as always, thank you!
ah pleased you learnt something, cheers!!
Beautiful film of the awesome work being done by/fun being had with Ealing Wildlife Group. Thank you!!
Ah thank you Cathy! Was a fun day.
Last year was a mass year for oaks acorns and hazel trees nuts I collected over a 1000 acorns to germinate and I love lost over 200 I thought it was the squirrels as I’m lucky and live near a wooded stream there’s loads of them about, so I brought wood fine chicken wire and made a big caged nursery for the trees. But I still kept loosing some I only see him the other night whilst having a cup of tea with a digestive. He was quite brave he actually stopped and watched me eat for a few secs.
Dear little things
Ahh that all sounds lovely. I wonder why so many acorns and nuts were produced 🤔maybe the drought?
@@LeaveCurious often it’s induced by stress on the trees. If the tree doesn’t survive a drought then maybe the seeds will germinate when conditions improve and thus carry on the genetic lineage. Unfortunately every summer has been very dry, so we may want to plant more drought resistant kinds of trees.
Well done Ealing wildlife group. Wish I lived nearer I'd join. Such an exciting project. Thank you.
I'm sure theres stuff going on in your area, just have little google and see. Cheers!
Oh my goodness, they're absolutely adorable!!!!! Such a wonderful project!
Watching your videos while applying for my first jobs post-uni. Hopefully in rewilding and restoration work. Thank you for the great content!
Ahh awesome, what jobs are you going for? If you want guidance on getting work in rewilding and restoration drop ecologytraining.co.uk/ an message
Mostly I have been applying for RSPB posts but more recently I have applied for a job at Cairngorms Connect, fingers crossed. Thanks for the website recommendation as well, the jobs section seems very helpful!
@@andrewavison1435 Ahh brilliant, stay busy and keep connecting with people in the industry as well as exploring what you're interested in!
Thank you for the advice, I certainly will!
Brilliant effort to all those involved in this - great stuff to see!!!
It's what Steve Irwin said, agriculture is not kind on wildlife. Where there are ruminants wildlife is thriving. Thank you for sharing this lovely video!
Great video Rob. What beautiful little critters!
Cheers Philip, they are quite beautiful!
I'd love to host some of these gorgeous critters in my mini meadow, but it is too small on its own. Perhaps if my neighbours joined in with a patchwork of mini meadows, hedges and gaps in the bottoms of the fences, we could all share a small community of them. Maybe one day. Thanks for sharing this uplifting story.
Top video again Rob, thanks for visiting!
Thanks for having me, was a fun day!
Great news, keep up the good work Rob 🙂 Glad you and Mossy earth are a team now aswell, followed you both for awhile 🌱
Yeah its been very enjoyable to be part of the team at Mossy Earth :) Only more good things to come!
It's amazing to think that a mouse could be threatened.
Why is that amazing? Mice are amazing animals, why would you want em threatened?
Chill 😂 I’m sure the person does not want them to be threatened. They probably mean it’s astonishing that even mice who used to be so prolific are threatened now.
@@thevikingsock8527I think it’s more that it’s amazing that something as small and quick as a mouse could be a threatened species.
You’d usually think of like… Rhinos, or something larger as threatened, not mice.
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Too many cats around
Awwww well done everyone involved, so great to see ! 🥰👍🤗
Cheers Oliver, it was a great day!
@@LeaveCurious can you please forward the link for donating ? I did try ? But can’t get it to work ? Happy to keep this site going ….. lovely to see great nature work and reporting too well done 🤗😉👍
Awesome projekt, very inspiring that you mobilized so many people!! :)
Yeah it’s really great to see all kinds of different people getting involved!!
This is so wholesome, well done everybody!
ahh yeah it was :) Cheers!
Thanks, that was very interesting and sweet!
Tears to my eyes as this was just WHOLESOME!!! ❤❤❤
Ahhh amazing!!
Love this! Just curious, how is this effort going to be measured moving forward? Are you guys planning on coming back to the same place to see if the mice are still there?
Yeah I believe there will be a survey conducted next year to look for signs at all locations, from what I gathered the project is looking promising. If Sean sees this he may answer in more detail. But I will certainly try and go back for any follow ups.
When the undergrowth dies back in the Autumn, Ealing Wildlife Group will revisit all the release sites to search for Harvest Mice nests which they make in the summer in the long grasses. The number of nest will be counted and added to our data from releases in previous years to see how well they are doing.
It is a wonderful project
I want to be a mouse wife !
Me too!!
Cute. Did they release all 1000 in Ealing?
I believe so yes at a few different locations, you can read about it more on their website :) ealingwildlifegroup.com/conservation-projects/harvest-mice/ that will tell you more!
Very cool - thank you for sharing this.
You’re welcome thanks watching and commenting!!
We need more groups like that out there
100% and I will make videos for them
This was lovely to see
Great video and initiative
Cheers Craig, we appreciate the support.
They look like the mice that lives in the Berlin S-Bahn, except the S-Bahn mice have larger ears, but they are really tiny. Probably beause that way they can pass through the gates meant to bar normal sized mice.
Wonderful. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
How enduring!!!! My kind of humans! 💚💚💚
ahh yeah, its nice when people care for nature!
Awesome!
It really is Haydn, cheers!!
So heartening!
It really is :) Cheers!
I would love to see Red Squirrels introduced into London parks.
Ooo that would be cool, but I don't know how they'd fair with the current grey populations.
@@LeaveCurious add a few pine martens to keep those grey bullies away 😉
I remember seeing red squirrels as a kid somewhere it might have been at crystal palace?
@@Padraigp crystal palace is quite a green area, so I wouldn't be surprised to see them there.
@@Organic_Body_Transformer i was very little...all I remmeber is there was squirrels and giant dinosaurs.
Later that day another animal enthusiast introduced mice eating snakes.
I love mice. So so cute and adorable.
They really are!!
What a brilliant little release program. OK 90% will be food but ho hum. I love mice, my house mice (who keep their numbers small) are so brave and often see them in my lounge during the day. Have the odd deer mouse too, which is not so great in the kitchen.
Yes they will get eaten, but hopefully they establish a population!
@@LeaveCurious with the location and rate of reproduction, I'm sure they will 👍
Amazing stuff
Interesting content Thanks
ah thank you pleased you enjoyed the video!
Aww amazing. Love the extremely urban sounds in the background right when theyre released 😅
Ahh yeah, didn't have to do much sound design on this one ;) Cheers Chris
Oh my God...they are lovely!!!
4:02 perfect audio segment if anyone looking to add to their text message tone arsenal. Every time you get a notification, you can hear Rob whispering 🤫
hahaha this is brilliant
Fantastic video, they really will increase the carrying capacity of the local food chain! It would be incredible to have more projects like this across the US, UK and Europe. (of course with native species)
3 month later headline in London Times:
Suddenly so many stray cats showed up in London Park. Nobody can explain.
Nobody?
I'll bet the local cats were happy.
The neighborhood indoor outdoors cat association thanks you guys!!!!!! Pruuuuuuuu YUM YUM😸😸😸😸
This is lovely.
Great work. They all count in the ECO system.
They do indeed, cheers!!
Don't we have Kestrel's and Sparrow Hawks in London? They usually go after pigeons from what I've seen, though I saw one catch a mouse in Deptford a few years back.
Yeah we do and they'll go for the mice too! Not sure whats easiest for the hawks, maybe the mice if in abundance!
@@LeaveCurious Doubt if any owls are in London, perhaps near the outskirts, they'll certainly go after those mice.
There's gonna be 1,014 happy cats hunting them down lol. 🤣🤣
Too wholesome ❤
1014 tributes enter the battlefield
Climb gates next to the hinges where it stresses them less.
I love the idea of "mousewives."
My goodness! How wonderful! And what lovely people.🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻💋💋💋🇺🇸🌸
Hi, I love your videos. I was just wondering if you knew how to potentially volunteer or be involved in internships within rewilding, thank you :) xx
Hey Chloe, I'd contact local charities in your area and see what they've got going on. The well known ones like wildlife trusts and rspb, but also any community ones, just like the Ealing Wildlife Group - check out ecologytraining.co.uk/ - they can help you make a career of it :) , - let me know if you need any help!
@@LeaveCurious thank you so much for your response, that’s really helpful. I’ll have a look into it all now
@@chloeoconnor8087 oh and also i've partnered with ecology training so if you do buy an online course use discount code 10leavecurious and you'll get 10% off - worth doing if you do!
@@LeaveCurious perfect! I was just having a look into the courses so I’ll definitely use your code if I sign up to one, thanks for all your help ✨
Oh my heavens, sooooo flippun GORRRRJUS 🥰
I love them! As long as they don’t leave inside :-)
I think they'd always rather been outside in good habitat :)
They're like Hobbits!
"Hobbits Are Amazing Creatures. You Can Learn All There Is To Know About Their Ways In A Month, And Yet After A Hundred Years, They Can Still Surprise You." - Gandalf.
"It Is the Small Things, Everyday Deeds of Ordinary Folk, That Keeps the Darkness at Bay." -Gandalf
"If the world is going to heck in a handbasket, then gimme a hobbit and I'll save said world!!" Gandalf (probably not- but hey)
I've always got time for a Tolkien / LOTR quote!
really cool bringing back the old school plague
@ ~ 5:30... omg.. felt so bad for that mouse.. stuck on the stinging nettle without a clue! geeezzz
yeah this got me thinking, i looked it up and couldn't find anything. I guess they would jump off if it did hurt, plus the whole plant doesn't sting and tiny paws might be able to dodge the spines?
Brilliantly
A good Irish accent from Sean! 👍
Shtinkin cute, those mousies 😍
Loving the harvest mice, but not keen on those 'effin grisly bears jumping out of the hedge! :)
You mean you wouldn't want children at a Grizzly introduction to London?? :D
Didn't know they were fine with climbing on nettles
Seems that way! I will find out for certain next time I speak with Sean
I think you meant "REALLY tiny".
It’s so funny to watch, as here in Australia we are being over run by the humble field mouse, after a 10 year drought the broke almost 2 years ago now the mouse and rat population has exploded due to the abundance of food around for them. But the biggest problem is the mice have infested the bales of hay and the grain storage which has made it all unusable. One farmer caught a full 40 gallon drum of mice in just one night alone. It takes 3-4 years for the numbers to drop back down to where they are no longer considered a plague issue. We are just going into the 3rd year now and with this winter being colder it will help to drop their numbers down again.
But they do have a place in the ecosystem always have done, this is why I don’t use poison and why it’s live capture and release.😊
Woah yeah that sounds pretty extreme, but sometimes nature is and you guys over in OZ have it way wilder than we do here!
Snakes are next to boom.
Mr and Mrs jingles!
May I introduce to you: The family Mouse. Mickey, Minnie, Maria, Monster, Marmelade, Mister, Missy, Marina…. 10 hours later… and this little fellow, the great-great-great-greatish grandson of Mickey and Minnie, Mortimer. If you come back day after tomorrow I’ll also introduce Mortimer’s babies to you.
This mouse introduction is hard work.
Hahaha was this original, I enjoyed it!
Bet they won’t be so cute when the start to multiply in their houses!🤣
I don’t think that peoples houses are the right habitat for a harvest mouse
As they say you can never have enough mice in London :)))
Can't release just any mice for this?
Harvest mice :)
Toddler right among face height nettles, that's one way to toughen up the youth!😂
Made me nervous
I hope they stay safe. I sometimes think these releases should be kept secret. 🤔
To lower house prices?
"Mousewives" ❤
six grams is just so tiny
oh i know! they'd definitely blow away on a windy night!
Next video - Why they released 2028 large cats to a London park.
😅 I think theres nearly that many in the area already!
@LeaveCurious Haha what a dream 🥰
@@MeAsMeButMe oh you mean like a lynx??
@@LeaveCurious 🤭🤭 just that it's dreamy to be surrounded by cats 🥰🥰🥰
10 more for a kilo-tinymouse
4:59 These people are immune to nettles.
I have to that I was not that day, forever wearing shorts when I shouldn't...
I just went out there to leave some DCON packs. Bye bye mice!
sure you did, waste of space.
You don’t touch hogweed my guy 😅 4:32
Nope you wouldn't want to do that Alex - but I think it might have been some quite vigorous Cow Parsley!
@@LeaveCurious BTW the video was a wonderful watch 🥰
@@AlexAuldMusic Nice one man, it was fun to edit to put together!
@@LeaveCurious you did a sterling job 💫
release cane toads next
youll not regret it
yikes mayyyyybbeee not
It's a silly idea to release them in London! As the Rat snakes! Are back in London now and theres loads so there just gonna be snacks for those snakes!
They're a bit silly! Scottish mice are adapted to Scotland, and other mice are adapted to their areas, so mixing them up is a mistake!
Hope the rats don't find them 🤞🍀
Yeah, its a bit sad to think that some of their fate will be sealed... but theres plenty of them and hopefully a sustainable population can be established!
Considering that rats are so much bigger they can probably set out traps that will catch the rats but that these tiny guys can just walk over without triggering it.
More rodents just what every city needs. Maybe not.
They're actually quite different to other species of rodents!
Cats and foxes will have a party.
I see you have that dam "cleavers" weed there. It's only been around my area in Washington State for the past 5 years or so. Pretty soon it will be the only plant around.
Yep they’ve been every for as long as I can remember! Fun to covertly put on people’s backs though
Cleavers are great for horses
@@kellygalvin7775 I read that people can eat it too. And that the Swedes use the berry's to make coffee. As the plant is high in caffeine. It's also in the coffee family.
Very useful herb
But are they tiny?
We have lots of cats in London so hopefully they'll be able to hide
Yes and there'll be many other natural predators for them too. Will do a follow up in the future!