Jane Judge's Mice

I don't think it would concern me - they look quite happy where they are. But if they do move into the house they can be captured humanely and re-located.

Field mice occasionally move into our garage in the Winter. There is a fridge freezer in there and lots of boxes stacked up so they have places to nest. It's really hard to get rid of them - they ignore the traps we put down. They ignore those plug in things that make a noise. Occasionally the neighbours' cats come in and take a wander around but that doesn't seem to get rid of them. We threw loads of stuff out last time that they had ripped to shreds. I spray the walls with vinegar from time to time and they don't seem to like that much.

If they're living outside in the bank then they're not house mice and they're nothing to worry about. They may be field or wood mice and could come indoors in cold weather, but there's no reason why they should.

We occasionally get house mice that have migrated from the often empty house next door and they're very different from the ones in your photos. They get short shrift.

More often we get field/wood mice (large heads compared with their bodies unlike house mice which are bigger anyway) and voles (very short or no tails) brought in by the cats. They don't want to be indoors! So we catch them in humane traps and put them out again. There must be hundreds of them around us but they've never come in of their own volition.

Please don't kill them if you can help it - they're cute little wild creatures that need preserving. Watch them through the window and enjoy their antics.

To be fair the mice are going to be the least of your worries. I now want to move in with you. They are so cute.

??? ?. there is no bear icon, perhaps they just leave their prints

We relocated a mouse that was in a drawer in the garage but were told that it might well die in a new location or that other mice would kill it.
We might as well have done it quickly ourselves than let it suffer somewhere else.

at least it's not a bear. Do you have to drive them out into the woods as a passenger? seat belt on.

I think 2 miles is recommended for mice. Could be worse. In Canada they have problems with bears that need to be relocated a minimum of 80 miles.
We dropped our house mates off in woods 4 miles away. Actually found it difficult to find somewhere that is not near somebody else (SE England).

Very cute. They look like field mice that may move indoors when it gets cold. Ours did! Invest in a (humane) mouse trap now! Warning, when you release them back outside it is recommended you do it at some distance else the little blighters will just come 'home'.

To be fair, I am far away I wonder whether someone dropped them off here!

Use a humane trap and drop them off far away

Get rid of them, please. They will be in your house next.
They breed quickly as well.

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I also have a selection of much blurrier ones