Scientific name: Peromyscus maniculatus

It was a few weeks ago, during one of our Silver Queen Mine open houses, that we opened up one of the miner’s storage trunks to find a family of three little deer mice curled up in an old shoe! The deer mouse is a small rodent that ranges from 11-18 cm in length. Their most distinguishing feature are their round eyes that are noticeably larger than those of other Ontario mice species. Their main food source is seeds, but as an opportunistic species, they will eat things like berries, insects, and fungi.