Small Mammals
Small mammals can be difficult to identify unless their dead bodies are found.
Brown rats are common in the area
and adults are unmistakeable.
Mice have have larger ears and longer tails than voles but they are both difficult to identify to species level.
Unlike rats, mice and voles which are rodents, shrews are insectivores and feed on worms and insects.
- Wood mice filmed at night.
- Mice filmed in the roofspace of a house. (They made a great deal of noise.)
- Brown rats near water. They are good swimmers.
- Brown rats climbing in the bushes to reach the bird table.Very opportunistic.
- Vole at night. Note small ears and short tail. (Species unknown.)
- Mouse, shrew and vole in compost bin.
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