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Post by accipiter on Nov 19, 2015 9:42:26 GMT
I found this creature back in the summer, common shrews I think? Along with a number of dead mice too, any idea to what killed them? Anyway Alan buried those just in case they died of something nasty and were picked up by some other creature. Attachments:
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Post by shirl100 on Nov 19, 2015 14:37:01 GMT
Could be Common Shrew as the tail might be a bit short for Pygmy Shrew, we get quite a few mice, voles and shrews dead in the garden courtesy of our neighbours cats who seem to spend most of their lives killing things!
Shirl
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Post by accipiter on Nov 19, 2015 16:48:06 GMT
The thing that struck me as odd Shirl was the amount I found all showing no body marks as if they may have been played by a cat or anything else. All these were found between the edge of a wheat field and a plantation, but this one was found on my driveway close by. Cats are very few and far between here in fact I think I have only seen a couple ever since I have lived here, it being quite a number of years now.
Alan
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Post by shirl100 on Nov 19, 2015 17:31:34 GMT
It does seem odd that there were so many of them, makes you wonder if the landowners are doing something. To be fair the cat kills around me are usually singletons apart from when a nest has been raided. I can't think of anything else which would kill and just leave, although shrews would be distasteful to other mammals usually (even my dog doesn't pick them up!).
Shirl
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Nov 19, 2015 21:06:57 GMT
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Post by dogghound on Nov 19, 2015 21:06:57 GMT
Common shrew
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Post by accipiter on Nov 19, 2015 22:20:34 GMT
Thank you so much for your quick response
Alan
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Post by NellyDee on Nov 22, 2015 11:51:37 GMT
It would suggest to me that someone has been putting down rat poison. When I started to find dead bank voles and indeed a weasel, I discovered that neighbours had put out rat poison. We do not have rats! Seems they tthought the voles were rats.
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Post by accipiter on Nov 22, 2015 12:55:28 GMT
It would suggest to me that someone has been putting down rat poison. When I started to find dead bank voles and indeed a weasel, I discovered that neighbours had put out rat poison. We do not have rats! Seems they thought the voles were rats. Not sure if shrews would eat rat poison Nelly, I was thinking more in terms of something that had been spayed thereby affecting the insects in some way. Alan, in the music room playing my favorite Tchaikovsky piece on the new keyboard, - piano concerto no 1 op 23 in b flat minor
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Post by shirl100 on Nov 22, 2015 14:44:59 GMT
Seems they thought the voles were rats. Not an unusual thing, same here when people see a water vole they are sure it's a rat, I suppose the Wind in the Willows "Ratty" may have contributed to the confusion.
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