[Hermit]

Hi Bionic,
  I rang my mum up and asked for details. The one she swears by she bought from the garden centre.
It is by Coopers of Stortford and is a Pest Reach Deluxe 6920 and cost over thirty quid( sorry more than I thought she said).You can set it for different pests from cockroaches to rats but she has it on voles and field mice . She swears by hers and highly recomends them.
 Thats all the info I got as it was her' cocktail hour' when I rang... all the widows on the road where she lives meet at my mums to watch the three o clock crime on telly and drink G and Ts.  A sort of over eighties gathering!!!

[Bionic]

Hermit,
Thanks for getting the information. I will have a look for it and see what i think.
 
Hmmm, a 3pm G&T doesn't sound bad to me 

[SallyintNorth]

Hi Bionic,
  I rang my mum up and asked for details. The one she swears by she bought from the garden centre.
It is by Coopers of Stortford and is a Pest Reach Deluxe 6920 and cost over thirty quid( sorry more than I thought she said).You can set it for different pests from cockroaches to rats but she has it on voles and field mice . She swears by hers and highly recomends them.

http://www.coopersofstortford.co.uk/cid/VSNKC1O9BS9O7E77AUMOKT5BPUEI3L3A/pest-reach-ultrasonic-pir-clear-deluxe-prodst06882i/

[Bionic]

Thanks for the link Sally. 
I have taken a look and its quite big and not the sort of thing you would put in an airing cupboard. Its also out of stock at the moment. I think I will continue on as I have been doing (no mice droppings for a couple of days) but if I still have a problem might investigate this again.
 
Sally

[Hermit]

Thats not what my mum has , my mums' plugs into a house socket and looks like a big central heating programmer. I will try and find out more.

[Bionic]

Thanks Hermit
Sally

[Bionic]

I haven't seen the mice, just their droppings so put a mouse trap in with peanut butter.  They ignored it.
I bought some poison pellets. They ignored them
I bought some poison that looks like blue grain. They ignored it.
Any suggestions?
Sally

Well I did all of the above and a piece of mars bar in a trap too and nothing worked. None of the pellets were eaten either. The droppings were just confined to the airing cupboard so I continued to hoover them up every so often. Now I have found that it isn't mice at all but BATS.
Mouse or Bat droppings in loft roof space - Reading Berkshire

[Fleecewife]

BATS - that's lovely    - apart from all those droppings of course.  Interesting how to tell the difference.  Have you seen them flying and been able to identify the species?

[deepinthewoods]

put a tray down and collect the guano, really good fertiliser it is.

[Bionic]

BATS - that's lovely    - apart from all those droppings of course.  Interesting how to tell the difference.  Have you seen them flying and been able to identify the species?

Fleecewife I did see them flying outside about July/August time last year and then got a bit put off when there were a couple in my lounge (on different occasions). OH just opened the patio door and they went out. Apparently it isn't unusual for this to happen when the young are flying. There were some holes above the chimney breast and I think they got in that way. I never associated the droppings with bats though until this week.
I don't know what they are but they are very small. I must try to identify them this year.

[SallyintNorth]

Very useful vid - I'm off to roll a few droppings between my fingers; I couldn't understand how we would have mice when there's a farm cat...

[Reg henderson]

bats are common , they tend to use your house as a nursery till their young can fly (usual around 6 months) , dont disturb them as there if big fines for doing this . best thing to do is find how they are getting in and fill the holes . but make sure the bats are not using it and have left , once the holes are filled put up some bat houses for them to return to. if you just dont do anything they will come back year after year and the colony will get bigger every year. the droppings dont look big , but bats hang in the same place all the time and I have seen a ceiling come down with the weight after a number of years . The urine from a large number of bats tends to smell bad . hope this is of some help , best of luck ,
                                                   Reg

[Bionic]

Thanks Reg. We do have a bat box that we bought with us when we moved. No bats had moved in it in our previous home. I guess its time we put it up here.
I haven't noticed any nasty smells so 
 

[Lesley Silvester]

I would love to have bats but maybe not in the house.

Reminds me of the time that my ex and I were woken one night by something in the bedroom.  He thought it was a bird and is petrified of things flapping round hin so disappeared under the duvet so I got up and turned on the light to see a very frightened bat.  I turned the light off quickly and drew back the curtains, opened the window as wide as I could then turned the light on again.  the bat shot towards the darkness and was gone.  I'm sure it was almost as relieved as my ex.  Nice to have a man to protect you from intruders.