Trapped: Once inside the feeder, the mouse is known to eat so much it cannot squeeze back outThis sneaky mouse has shown an amazing talent for sneaking into a backyard bird feeder to gorge on nuts and oats.
The brazen rodent has made several raids on the hanging feeder in the backyard of keen gardener Noel Blundell's Merseyside home.
Mr Blundell, 55, has dubbed the mouse 'Supermouse' for its antics scurrying up the tree from which the feeder hangs, before running along the branch and down onto the device, sneaking in when the seed drops below the feeder hole.
On more than one occasion, the three-inch-long field mouse has eaten so much while inside that he became to fat to escape, and Mr Blundell had to free him.
The feeder was designed to be squirrel-proof. Mr Blundell's hometown of Formby is famous as one of the only places in Britain to still have red squirrels.
Mr Blundell said: 'He is incredible little creature. I'm sure he thinks he's a squirrel.
'I thought I was hallucinating the first time I saw him scurry up the tree trunk and then scamper out on the branch and swing down to get at the bird feeder.
'A couple of times he has gone right inside the feeder, when the level of seed inside has been lower than the feeder hole. Once inside he has gorged himself so much on the bird seeds and got so fat that he could not squeeze back out through the hole.
'I've had to free it a couple of times now, but it keeps coming back. He's even started bringing a friend with him. We call him Supermouse and he's certainly very brazen because he does not seem at all afraid of humans or the birds who come to the feeder.'
The feeder is manufactured by Nature's Feast, of Driffield, East Yorkshire, and is advertised as 'squirrel resistant'.
Nature's Feast sales executive Lauren Walker said: 'In 20 years we've never heard of a mouse that has managed to get to one of our bird feeders in this way. It's amazing that the owner of the feeder has to free the mouse when he gets too fat to escape back through the hole.
'But the mouse must be very agile in order to be able to get to the feeder when it is hanging from a tree branch. We'd be interested to see him in action.'
source: dailymail
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