Driftway, Steyning. Classic ratty face. Sadly I've only got this one photo at the mo. The order is Rodentia, and the Family Muridae along with mice. It's also known as a street rat, or a sewer rat of a wharf rat depending on where it is seen! The other name "Norway Rat" is a misnomer from the 18th century when a naturalist thought and cited that these came from Norway! Now people think they may have originated from central Asia and China.

Brown Rat (Rattus norvegicus) - Muridae (14/10/2007) Driftway, Steyning. Classic ratty face. Sadly I've only got this one photo at the mo. The order is Rodentia, and the Family Muridae along with mice. It's also known as a street rat, or a sewer rat of a wharf rat depending on where it is seen! The other name "Norway Rat" is a misnomer from the 18th century when a naturalist thought and cited that these came from Norway! Now people think they may have originated from central Asia and China.

Driftway, Steyning (garden). Nothing else quite like it. Unlike Rabbits and Hares that people sometimes mislable as rodents, the latter have but two incisors - rabbits/hares have four.

Grey Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) - Sciuridae (14/03/2006) Driftway, Steyning (garden). Nothing else quite like it. Unlike Rabbits and Hares that people sometimes mislable as rodents, the latter have but two incisors - rabbits/hares have four.

Grey Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) - Sciuridae (14/03/2006) Driftway, Steyning (garden).

Grey Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) - Sciuridae (14/03/2006) Driftway, Steyning (garden). A regular visitor because of all the bird food we put out!

Grey Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) - Sciuridae (14/03/2006) Driftway, Steyning (garden).

Grey Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) - Sciuridae (14/03/2006) Driftway, Steyning (garden). Just about to leap off our mushroom garden ornament!

Grey Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) - Sciuridae (14/03/2006) Driftway, Steyning (garden). Classic squirrel brush tail!

Driftway, Steyning (garden). I love this shot, accidentally underexposed but unmistakeably a sillhouette of a squirrel!

Grey Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) - Sciuridae (04/07/2005) Driftway, Steyning (garden). I love this shot, accidentally underexposed but unmistakeably a sillhouette of a squirrel!

Grey Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) - Sciuridae (04/07/2005) Driftway, Steyning (garden).

Grey Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) - Sciuridae (09/07/2005) Driftway, Steyning (garden). They fluff them up like this when they are annoyed!

Grey Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) - Sciuridae (06/12/2004) Driftway, Steyning (garden). Squirrel gymnastics on the feeders.

Driftway, Steyning (garden). It's head is actually noshing away behind the nut feeder - clinging on to the main post with its hindfeet!

Grey Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) - Sciuridae (06/12/2004) Driftway, Steyning (garden). It's head is actually noshing away behind the nut feeder - clinging on to the main post with its hindfeet!

Grey Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) - Sciuridae (06/12/2004) Driftway, Steyning (garden). Arundel Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust. Classic Water Vole. Nothing else quite like it given its giss and location.

Arundel Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust. Classic Water Vole. Nothing else quite like it given its giss and location.

Water Vole (Arvicola amphibius) - Cricetidae (03/09/2006) Arundel Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust. Classic Water Vole. Nothing else quite like it given its giss and location. Arundel Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust. Was chuffed to get this. Was having a sit down in teh copsey bit on the boardwalk and heard a scurrying noise - and very carefully got my camera in position. Two shots and then it scurried away.

Arundel Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust. Was chuffed to get this. Was having a sit down in teh copsey bit on the boardwalk and heard a scurrying noise - and very carefully got my camera in position. Two shots and then it scurried away.

Water Vole (Arvicola amphibius) - Cricetidae (03/09/2006) Arundel Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust. Was chuffed to get this. Was having a sit down in teh copsey bit on the boardwalk and heard a scurrying noise - and very carefully got my camera in position. Two shots and then it scurried away.