Another strange birding anomaly

["John Morgan" <jmorgan480 at comcast dot net>]

This is weird! Someone help please!

Story:
Carma (wife) put the Christmas wreath on our front door just after 
Thanksgiving. At some point in early December, she brought the wreath in 
to add something to it. She laid it on the living room couch that 
evening, made the adjustments, then picked it up and put it back on the 
front door.

Next morning in the light of day, I noticed something lying on the couch 
where the wreath had been. Approaching closer, I see it's a dead mouse 
(not dried and shriveled...no rigormortis...fresh, but some mangling of 
the head). Sorry for the description, but its condition seems important 
to the crime scene investigation.

Naturally, I had to show her. "Honey, why is there a dead mouse on our 
couch?" Shrieks and screams ensue. After the melee, we wondered who 
would play such a trick on us. "Could/would a bird have done this?" I 
wondered.

The wreath is still up. Carma was off work today. I got another phone 
call: "You're not going to believe this but there's another mouse in our 
wreath today!"

OK, fine. I give up. Who's the culprit? Is this bird activity? What bird 
caches it's food (mice)? 22nd W 90th S area of West Jordan. No Jays, 
other than their hawk-heckling cousins, the Magpies. No Shrikes. No 
mouse eaters other than the occasional Kestrels and SS Hawks/Coopers.

Has anyone else seen anything like this? We have no known human 
pranksters in the area, but no birds have ever been witnessed hanging 
around our front door.

Confused...and interested.
John
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