i would imagine mice will give anything a try if hungry enough but theres so much more tasty things for mice even now ie bird feeders,grass etc . id say they more likley live there and deffinatly need killing humainly excuse my spelling .

I agree with Noseypotter on this. Mice will have a go at anything, once, but I doubt that they would make welsh poppies a significant part of their diet.

Welsh poppies often self seed too, so you might find some new seedlings in a few weeks, and by then the mouse might have other things to eat. They normally eat seeds, fruit and sometimes insects. Are you sure it was a mouse and not a vole or a shrew? Voles do eat green leaves and tree bark, they have blunter rounder faces and shorter tails than mice.

Thank you all - that's great advice. I've been keeping a watchful eye on him today and he seems to be eating only the husks of sunflower seeds from my feeders. Must be a coincidence that the mouse arrived at the same time I noticed the leaves having been eaten, so maybe I need to widen the search! Its definitely a mouse Steragram. I've got some seed heads I collected last year that I'm hoping to sow soon :)

sunflower seeds are way up there to a lot of creatures . i like them myself just a lot of faffing about lol .especialy with false teeth .

Hope your seeds are successful then Dirtyred.