This hungry dormouse – which crawled into a bird feeder and ate so much it got stuck.
The creature spent hours in the plastic cylinder after gorging on millet and sunflower seeds – unfazed by the birds pecking away around it.
Cheryl Hewins, 72, who found it in her garden on the Isle of Wight, said: "I was surprised to find the thing sitting in my birdfeeder, he must have been there all night and eaten so much he couldn't get out."
'I'm glad he enjoyed his meal.'
Catherine Holder of the Hampshire Dormouse Group, who helped rescue the animal after Ms Hewins contacted her on Facebook, added: 'Cheryl was a bit panicked about finding it in her feeder.
'I quite couldn't believe it when I saw the photo.
'It's nice it was a dormouse because so many times people think they've seen a dormouse and it's not.
'I also just thought it was hilarious. He just sat there like an absolute chunk.
'I got back to her very quickly and confirmed it was a dormouse and told her to take it to the nearest vegetation cover in the garden and try and let him out as soon as possible.
'Generally they are not a garden species and if they do come to bird feeders it will be at night.
'It's quite unusual for someone to see them sitting still, blinking at them.'
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The creature spent hours in the plastic cylinder after gorging on millet and sunflower seeds – unfazed by the birds pecking away around it.
Cheryl Hewins, 72, who found it in her garden on the Isle of Wight, said: "I was surprised to find the thing sitting in my birdfeeder, he must have been there all night and eaten so much he couldn't get out."
'I'm glad he enjoyed his meal.'
Catherine Holder of the Hampshire Dormouse Group, who helped rescue the animal after Ms Hewins contacted her on Facebook, added: 'Cheryl was a bit panicked about finding it in her feeder.
'I quite couldn't believe it when I saw the photo.
'It's nice it was a dormouse because so many times people think they've seen a dormouse and it's not.
'I also just thought it was hilarious. He just sat there like an absolute chunk.
'I got back to her very quickly and confirmed it was a dormouse and told her to take it to the nearest vegetation cover in the garden and try and let him out as soon as possible.
'Generally they are not a garden species and if they do come to bird feeders it will be at night.
'It's quite unusual for someone to see them sitting still, blinking at them.'
Source: The Sun, Daily Mail
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