FW: [Ohio-birds] OT- domestic small mammal sightingHi all,
Interesting observation by Steve about one of our more common and ferocious mammals. I happened to have a conversation with John Pogacnik earlier in the day about the possible interconnection of short-tailed shrews, invasive earthworms, and predatory birds such as Eastern Screech-Owls. This is a fascinating and possibly ominous issue, and John has been making some keen observations on the topic. I hope to write a bit more about this on my blog soon.
Anyway, if you want to see some photos of the shrew Steve cites, and see some additional info, I wrote about them a while back, here: http://jimmccormac.blogspot.com/2009/03/poisonous-mammal.html
Jim
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Subject: [Ohio-birds] OT- domestic small mammal sighting
Hi all,
OK, OK, itıs not a bird, but I think it might be of interest to some.
Here in our Cleveland Heights house, weıve had some mice recently. We
dispatch them with a traditional snap trap.
But a few days ago, Beth saw a mouse in the basement, I set a few traps and
yesterday morning we had one in a trap. But it looked wrong<tail too short,
eyes too small, snout too pointy, ears too small, too gray...
This morning we had another animal like this<Iım quite sure what we had were
Short-tailed Shrews.
Itıs a life home invader for us!
Think we could interest some owls???
Best wishes,
Steve Cagan
Cleveland heioghts, Cuyahoga County
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