WARNING – This post contains lots of rat pictures (anyone with a rat phobia please avoid!)

Rats do get a bad press but I am a fan.

We do have a pretty healthy population of rats, the populations seems to be cyclical, with it growing larger until our Stoats and Weasels get wind of this and pay a visit. They can decimate a rat population in just a few days.

I have a log pile outside Dunces Corner Hide which I have added some old clay field drain pipes, they love these. They can feed without being seen from any aerial predators.

Rats are pretty good swimmers and they happily feed around the Mallards and don’t mind taking the odd dip to cross over to where the food is.

There are a couple of quite young rats which are easy to spot due to there grey fur.

I thought I would throw in a few facts about rats you may not know:-

1. Rats are colourblind and have relatively poor eyesight.
2. Rats are very clean and hate getting dirty.
3. There are more than 60 species of rats worldwide.