The Nature Photography Thread

[ConcinusMan]

It's not a damn llama, tribble, hamster, whatever. It's obviously a wookie.



No, but seriously it's a vole. Very common around here. Favorite food for small birds of prey, especially owls. Also coyotes love them. I have observed coyotes working together to flush them out of the grass and gobble them up.

Snake food Jesse? I don't think so. Funny thing is, all the native snakes around here won't touch them. They even seem repelled by the smell of voles but will eat CB rats and mice. not sure why.

[Stefan-A]

No, but seriously it's a vole.

The tail is too long, the ears are too big and the belly is too white.

Then again, it could still be Microtus arvalis, but it still has an unusually long tail and unusually sharp coloration.

[ConcinusMan]

Perhaps you're right. First impression was vole because it looks just like the voles around here only they dont have white undersides. There is at least two that I've seen around here and the tail is not all that big. One of them has a longer tail but it is still very thin like the one pictured. It just seems the tail is too thin and short to be Apodemus flavicollis and body is too fat and round to be Apodemus sylvaticus.

My ego must be right and so it will be. I say it's a rodent.

[Stefan-A]

The animal is hunched and has its eyes closed, it's not exactly easy to say what the body shape is, but the tail is still longer than the voles in the region (Microtus arvalis, Microtus agrestis, Myodes glareolus, Arvicola terrestris).

[ConcinusMan]

But I'm still right. It's a rodent.

Sorry it's late. Like 2am here. Took some herbal "medicine". Feeling a bit...

[Stefan-A]

But I'm still right. It's a rodent.

You could still be right about it being a vole.

[ConcinusMan]

Well bless my britches.

[-MARWOLAETH-]

i have some more pics of it hopefully a little more helpful.
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[snake man]

looks like a mouse to me.

[RedSidedSPR]

Does look like a vole.

I'm no expert but I'm going with Richard on this one, I say it's a rodent.