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Field mouse bridge!!!

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

We drove along the new bi-pass that avoids Church Village last week and noticed several small bridges along the way. I asked Jez what they were for as they were obviously way to small for pedestrians. I was totally speechless after what he told me and thought he was yanking my chain.

Apparently they are for field mice and, I presume, other small animals to get from one side to the other without becoming roadkill.

I later found out they spent about £150.000 erecting these bridges.

The idea is good I suppose in theory and I hate seeing animals killed on roads but my question is this. How do the animals know to use them???

Has anyone else seen these before or heard of them?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yep it was in the paper a few weeks ago its a bloody stupid waste a money in this climate xx

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By *harpDressed ManMan
over a year ago

Here occasionally, but mostly somewhere else


"How do the animals know to use them??? "

Signposts?

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"How do the animals know to use them???

Signposts?

"

LOL That's what hubby said when I asked that!!!

That said, rodents are very intelligent creatures but I think that maybe stretching a little

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By (user no longer on site)
Forum Mod
over a year ago

I just had to google about this as I could'nt believe it!

£190,000 that cost

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

There are a lot of tunnels under roads for animals to pass under but i haven't seen any bridges for them.

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By *nvictusMan
over a year ago

Beeston

I seem to recall the Monster Raving Loony Party having something in their manifesto about putting pedestrian crossing controls at ground level so hedgehogs could use them...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I seem to recall the Monster Raving Loony Party having something in their manifesto about putting pedestrian crossing controls at ground level so hedgehogs could use them... "

yeah I read that too, doesnt seem so mad now given what they're doing for the wee little field mice.

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By *unky monkeyMan
over a year ago

in the night garden

This is nothing.

Our local authority have just completed a tram car system for voles!

It's like a huge scalelectrix track in our town centre with lot's of angry commuter voles waving their fists at the humans who keeping getting in the way of the trams.

Will man never learn not to meddle with nature!!!

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By *layfullsamMan
over a year ago

Solihull

rather it be spent on field mice than the authority give money to the "one legged bulgarian lesbian morris dancing society"..Saying that they could have saved money and used a zip slide instead

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

Must admit it would be interesting to find out if they actually learn to use it. Perhaps they will spend more money and put up camera's on the bridges to see if this works! Wouldn't surprise me at all.

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By *umourCouple
over a year ago

Rushden

Whilst building a road, lay a length of pipe under it and conctete over the top... Continue to lay road!

Animal tunnel for a couple of thousand quid! But then, not a headline grabber, eh?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You could always go on 'small animal watch' to see if any go by? Keep us posted, this thread has made me giggle!

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By *harpDressed ManMan
over a year ago

Here occasionally, but mostly somewhere else

Ironically, they'll be more accessible to birds as a result.

So more may die, only more naturally.

Which is worth £190,000, I'm sure we'd agree...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

why not , they do have crossings for Zebras and there a non-native species , bout time we did things for some of our own first !!!!!!!

(i'll get me coat )

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By *ushroom7Man
over a year ago

Bradford


"Ironically, they'll be more accessible to birds as a result.

So more may die, only more naturally.

Which is worth £190,000, I'm sure we'd agree..."

Some birds may not be able to fit through. What happens if they get stuck?

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By *layfullsamMan
over a year ago

Solihull


"why not , they do have crossings for Zebras and there a non-native species , bout time we did things for some of our own first !!!!!!!

(i'll get me coat )"

and for pelicans

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By *layfullsamMan
over a year ago

Solihull

Think the rabbit and stoat need to be used to train the field mice to cross the road.......Living by a busy road, these animals aren’t willing to take any chances when it comes to getting across safely.

Instead, a rabbit and a stoat are cleverly using an underground network of drains to make it to the other side.

The cute animals scuttle from one side of the road to the other and pop out of drains in order to avoid being hit by traffic.

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By *umpkinMan
over a year ago

near the sounds of the wimborne quarter jack!

I hope they`re constructed better than that footbridge in the Commonwealth Games stadium!

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