Granddad Shares 29 Pictures Showing How He Transformed His Garden Into A Halloween Village For Wild Mice
Today, we have Simon Dell, a 50-year-old grandfather from Sheffield, UK, and he made a little village for wild mice to live in his garden. They have their own small Halloween celebration every year.
Simon created each of the mice's numerous little dwellings by hand, frequently using repurposed materials. These are just a few of the entertaining pictures he took of the untamed mice as they embrace the Halloween season.
From a tiny family of mice living in wood piles when Simon first created the mouse village in 2018, it has expanded to include a schoolhouse, a bakery, pubs, shops, a bookshop, a church, a train station, and more. Mice are incredibly intelligent tiny animals that appear in a lot of our favorite childhood tales.
Simon's grandchildren enjoy playing in the mouse village and watching the mice go about their daily lives in their tiny homes. It also brings Simon great joy to watch them every single day.
Since the mice knows Simon brings peanuts and seeds, they have grown accustomed to his presence and are all completely wild and free. Simon hopes you like these pictures and we do too. Don't forget to stop by and check him out at "George the Mouse in a Log Pile House" on Facebook.
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1. The Little Mouse Of Horrors. Inspired By The Movie
2. Take That Pumpkin Monster As The Mouse Takes A Bite
3. Mouse Eating Pumpkin Or Pumpkin Eating Mouse, You Decide
4. George The Mouse In His Pumpkin House
5. A Couple Of The Baby Mice Are Trick-Or-Treating With Their Ghost Costume
6. Hurry, Get Back Inside, The Giants Are Coming
7. One Of The Mice Is In A Scary Bat Costume. Are You Afraid Yet?
Why did Simon Dell start a mouse village? That is a common question and he says it all began in 2018.
"I had just begun getting into photography to help deal with my depression, to give me a reason to get out of the house, and maybe meet new people. My wife and I would travel all over the local Peak District in search of things to photograph, and on the days we couldn’t get out, I would sit in the garden taking photos of birds or other wildlife," he said.
Even back then, while Simon was taking pictures of birds, he would use small props or oddball handcrafted bird tables.
8. Bat Mouse, Now All We Need Is A Robin
9. A Pumpkin Head Mouse
10. Ghost Mouse, So Very Spooky
11. Pumpkin Cottage And The Little Mouse That Lives There
12. The Pumpkin Mouse House Is So Very Spooky
13. The Mouse Pumpkin Seller And His Market Stall
Then one day, after just cutting the lawn, Simon was sitting on the patio when he saw movement in the recently cut grass. George the Mouse, a lone male house mouse amid grass a bit taller than himself, was there as Simon reached for his camera and zoomed in.
"As I started to take photos, he stood up on his back legs like a little meerkat and looked over towards me. I thought he would run away, but he didn’t. He stood there for some time, checking me out," he added.
Everyone adored the pictures when the grand dad shared them in various Facebook groups.
14. The Little Mouse Shop Of Horrors
15. Pumpkin Cottage And A Little Baby Mouse At The Door
16. The Pumpkin House. I Hand-Made The Doors And Windows From Wood To Decorate A Real Carved Pumpkin
17. A Grumpy Little Hobbit Mouse - "No Trick-Or-Treaters Please, All Treats Are Mine"
18. A Broomstick-Riding Mouse
19. Another Pumpkin Mouse House
20. Cinderella Mouse In Her Pumpkin Carriage
21. Another Scary Ghost Mouse
22. Scary Pumpkin
23. The Mice Are Having A Family Halloween Picnic
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25. Pip-Squeak The Baby Mouse
26. Mother Mouse Taking Her Baby Trick-Or-Treating
27. A Little Mouse Trick-Or-Treating Outside One Of The Mouse Homes
28. The Haunted Halloween Mouse House. Do You Dare To Enter?
29. Squeak Or Treat
The next day, in the hopes that he would come back, Simon put a peanut beside the tree and fence where he came out and sat. And as he sat eating his peanut, he did—again, not really afraid of him.
It dawned on Simon then that he must need some shelter to protect him from neighborhood cats. So he constructed a simple little log-pile house, and that's about it.
The log pile gradually expanded into a whole village after George the Mouse went viral on the internet. It is still expanding and has the potential to evolve into a town or maybe a metropolis.
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