We
had a bad start to the glorious sunny day....we appear to have a
mouse in the trailer! Tissues shredded, some droppings and part of a
pear nibbled! We have been lazy in not using the traps, so after a
search, clean and setting of traps with peanut butter, we left the
trailer to the mouse and headed for the trails!
We
did a beautiful 7 mile hike called Upper Palisades Lakes trail, we
saw a grouse, lots of pikas, which was amazing as they are such timid
animals, alpine meadows with flowers past their best except for a
gentian type flower which was still in bud! We spotted five mountain
goats high up as we passed four pretty lakes and ended at Upper
Palisades Lake for lunch. Quite a tough hike with elevation gain of
1800ft but we had a wonderful day, and no mouse in the traps when we
got back!
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| CAMPFIRE |
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| MOUNTAIN GOATS |
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| UPPER PALISADES LAKE |
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| PIKA PICTURES |
However
as we sat reading around 9pm, I heard a noise from under the drawers
where we had put one trap..... one mouse caught! I'm not a lover of
mice and I didn't really want to see it but as Roy took it outside to
be cremated on his campfire I looked – it was white underneath and
had a long pink tail – not as cute as the ones we've trapped
before!
AND
THEN.... Roy replaced the trap and ten minutes later... another mouse
caught!
AND
THEN.... just as we were going to bed I said joking to Roy –
there's another.....and there was! Now that's enough thank you very
much – we cant find out where they are coming in but its a common
problem with trailers.
That's why we leave mouse, roach and ant bait down in our trailer and truck at all times. Good job you caught the mice and hope you got them all. T and S xxx
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