
With our continued hot dry spell we decided to make an early start on Sunday morning to collect our trail camera footage. On the way, with the sun just up we spotted a good number of different mammals.
Rabbits.


Roebuck. This deer is the regularly spotted buck in our local fields and woodland.






A Shrew. This tiny mammal crossed our path, while we crossed the field. I think this is a Common Shrew.
Common shrews are tricoloured: brown on the back, pale brown at the sides and whitish underneath. They have dense velvety fur, with a long pointed nose, tiny eyes, small ears and red teeth. Their lifespan is short they rarely live longer than a year.
Size: 48-80mm, tail 24-44mm; tail less than 3/4 length of head and body.
Weight: 5-14g.



A bit shaky but a short film of this tiny mammal.
We spotted a fox on several occasions during our walk but he kept his distance.

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Interesting animals and info! That’s quite a variety for a walk. Pretty cool
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as a smart Fox should!
If you had a place to shelter in a tree and that tree was all by itself in a active field,I bet you’d find all sorts of animal traffic through the course of the day!
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Savor getting up at the crack of dawn before the colder weather sets in – the days are already getting shorter, much to my chagrin.
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