Mouse Nest Material: What Is It?
 

Found a mouse nest on top of my air filter. Material looks like dryer lint (though there are specks of color in there). Is it likely that the mouse made its nest out of materials external to the car, or could this be from inside the car? And if so, what might it be?

Do you keep a rag wedged into somewhere in the engine compartment?? Or is there a rag you don't know about from the PO??
Is the lint the same color as the air filter?? Or the engine compartment insulation??

I found a mouse's nest in my grandma's E420 in the V of the engine. It was made from the engine compartment insulation.

It pulled hairs from its body.....

Maybe the sound insulation from behind the kickpanels under the dash?

You are in CANADA !!! If they pulled their own hair there they would FREEZE.

It was -27C the day I changed that injector....

You are a better SNowman that I am .... if my fingers or nose get cold... ALL my ' sense of mission ' goes away.

http://prairiebluestem.blogspot.com/2006/12/mouse-nest-in-woodpile.html

http://www.fcps.edu/islandcreekes/ecology/white-footed_mouse.htm

I'm a Canuck, what can I say... I use my ac at 70F... lol

Here in the south of the US.. .many of us do that also due to the terrible humidity...only way to drop it out of the air....70 degrees F at 80 plus percent humidity is not comfortable...

I"m aware of that. I used to drive truck into houston every week...

Delivering SNOW ?

That was well melted by the time I got to Amarillo...
Usually I dealt with oilfield equipment...

To answer the post title, I'd have to ask where your mouse shops for building and bedding materials?

Rodentia Bed and Bath....