Thursday, March 3, 2011

A Mouse, A Mole, A Shrew!

Just before supper, Josiah came running into the house (after returning a snail to it's home) yelling excitedly, "You would not believe what I just saw!"
We waited calmly while he explained that he saw a "mouse" run under the green thing in the back yard.
"What green thing?", we ask.
He waves his arms emphatically, "You just have to come see!"
We race outside, curious to know what all this could be about.
The following video is what we saw, once the lid of the "green thing" aka "doggy doolie" (which by the way we have not used in a long time, except to dump the contents of the RAINBOW) was lifted. Some say it is a mole, some say a shrew. What do you think?



Cute huh? The kids went and found worms and grubs to drop near it, and it quickly ate them up. It seemed only slightly bothered that we were watching it and only ran back in it's hole when a noise startled it.



He did finally decide to dine elsewhere and trotted off to the exact location where the kids had been getting the worms to feed it. I had some longer videos, but they wouldn't download.



1 comment:

Paul Spillers said...

How cool! I've only seem them dead after our dog Suzie got to them. It's nice to see one alive. :)