[Solved] Does anyone know what this is - is it caused by mice?

Hello, I have never had any such surprises for several years, until today in the attic I discovered something like this, my first thought was mouse droppings, but maybe it`s something else, does anyone of you know?

Or maybe it was some bug that did something, it didn`t happen in the summer so it`s not that old, and there is no smell, not to mention any stench.

In fact, only in this one place there are a few individual "bobs" on one horizontal beam, above the wool from the photo, i.e. in the close vicinity, everywhere you look clearly.

Are these actually mice or are there any other options?

The first photo visually indicates mouse feces. As for the second photo, it`s hard for me to say because I`ve never seen them with such magnification

blekis wrote:

The first photo visually indicates mouse feces

So it`s a mouse after all, I prefer this option over a marten, although I`ve never seen anything like that on my plot and marten droppings seem to look different from what I`ve searched and, above all, they seem to smell bad.

The marten has larger ears.

It`s probably going to be a bat.

Romulus7874 wrote:

It`s probably going to be a bat

Oh, and that could be possible, because there are bats in my place.

The only question is how he could get in, I had one hole cut out in the boards (because the roof is fully boarded) for the entrance from the ventilation chimney and there was some space there, so he would be able to get in there, but there are still tiles on the roof.
He would also have to go under the roof tiles somewhere and crawl there and find the hole in the fireplace boards (by the way, I have already covered it/sealed it with plaster mesh).
Can they crawl under the roof tiles? ?

Well, unless it got in through the fireplace, I don`t know how big the gap is, but it`s probably too small.

I found a photo of bat droppings on the Internet and it actually looks like mine

And I would be happy to have a bat in the attic
Not only is it a nice animal, but it also exterminates all the pests that appear there and these few little pieces of shit are worth it.

Yes, you`re right, I was happy because I prefer it to mice, but overall, these are just a few pieces of crap now.
and if there were to be so much of it that it had to be shoveled out (and it`s probably just a matter of time), and it`s rather difficult to use this wool, I`d rather he let this place go. :)

And I would love to look at them outside in the evening while they are flying

I will assess whether they are there differently, I will simply remove these "few" pieces of crap and after some time I will check whether they are there again or not...

atom1477 wrote:

Record the sound with 96kHz sampling and you will see if they are still there.

And what good will it give him? How it hears max up to 20kHz and much more depends on the microphone and what it plays on.

@kp.. read; https://www.elektroda.pl/rtvforum/topic1854876.html By the way, how @Millaka mentioned, we should be happy, and the second thing is that a bat is, after all, a mouse equipped with wings by nature Just a few years ago, I had a whole herd of these rodents in my attic (an over a hundred-year-old building that remembers the Tsar). no mosquitoes, flies or other flying vermin. The administration "evicted" the poor animals and now in the summer there is a plague of flying pests

ArturAVS Well, you know, it all depends on the situation, a historic, hundred-year-old house probably had concrete or some boards on the floor or in the attic, so it`s easier to clean up.
In current construction, there is often a so-called attic where the ceiling on the first floor is suspended (some people in single-story houses even have such a ceiling, they do not make a concrete ceiling) and insulated with wool from above, a lot of wool covered with a lot of shit, I guess it`s not that good, still all we need is for some water to get there and we have manure above our heads, and then won`t some other vermin spawn there?

As for mosquitoes, I have never seen a mosquito there in my life, and even that is not important in this place.
Generally, I don`t have many mosquitoes, it`s probably because I have bats outside and that`s where they belong, this is my opinion and no one will convince me otherwise. .

In your home, please, everyone can do whatever they want, even keep a cow in the next room, because it can also be nice, go to the next room and milk some fresh milk. .

And besides, bats may also spread something, the Chinese tell us that Covid-19 comes from bats, I don`t believe them here, but you see.

Something about it : :
"...in buildings they can be a nuisance, forming smaller or larger concentrations (colonies). Rabies occurs in 4-6% of bats. They spread parasites: bedbugs, fleas, blood-sucking mites. The smell of bats and their urine is also unpleasant. The droppings have no "they have an unpleasant smell, but their guano is a breeding ground for the fungus Histoplasma capsulatum, which causes the dangerous human disease histoplasmosis. Guano attracts flies, cockroaches and other coprophages."

Source: https://muratordom.pl/ogrod/porady-ogrodnicze/nietoperze-aa-hGh9-774D-5zBt.html

Bats are not the creatures responsible for the coronavirus?

Or change the sampling to move the recording to a lower band.

What if there isn`t? As old as time Cool Edit: Menu Edit > Adjust Sample Rate.

Well, there is no point in debating with sheet metal, foil, etc
Especially since in Something about it everything was explained what dangers it carries.

To finish the topic, I would like to thank my friend very much Romulus7874 for pointing out the clue, I wouldn`t have guessed it was a bat unless I accidentally caught him in the act