I noticed some quick movements near the ground feeder one evening and it turned out to be this vole raiding the bird seed. It would run out from the base of the tree, grab a seed, and run back to the tree. Compared to the much larger "tree rats", this little guy barely made a dent in the bird food.
1/320 sec. f/6.3 ISO 400
18 comments:
Brian you have sharp eyes. You are always ready to point your camera up or down.
Great catch!
It is unusual to photograph these moles!
One can even see its eye!!
I meant vole....
Great captures Brian!
they really are quite unique looking. Great captures!
Great capture ...these little things are fast!!!
OMG that was a lucky capture. Of course I would have initially screamed mouse and ran! Your feed isn't coming to my blog page again so I'm going to go catch up....wasn't ignoring you! :)
tiniest of eyes, no visible ears and the softest looking pelt! great catch! he's beautiful!
So cute, we had a family of them in our yard last year!
Ha!!! Good catch Brian!!! I've never seen a vole...I've seen their tunnels in the ground, but never the actual vole!!! He's actually kind of cute...glad he's not in my yard though!!!
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Trop mignon ;o)
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Well spotted Brian...it's a lovely little creature.
Great capture, Brian! I see the holes all around my yard but have yet to see one myself.
Beautiful coloring--never thought to say that about a creature so close to a rat.
Ewww I think I'd rather see the tree rats.
What an interesting little animal. I've never seen one before. How cool that you caught this one having a little snack.
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