#blarina brevicauda

[obscvra]

Northern short-tailed shrew - Blarina brevicauda

Had to rescue this sweet little one that got trapped in a window well.

[speepybees]

the shrew :3

[uninterruptednonsense]

Friend caught a shrew who had somehow stumbled into her below-ground house.

Him soft.

We named him Bartholomew.

[chicagobotanicgarden]

Shrew-ed Observations

Local long-tailed and short-tailed shrews are fascinating finds in McDonald Woods, and valuable residents of our natural world.

Several years ago, while walking the nature trail in McDonald Woods, I stopped, having heard a high-pitched squeaking emanating from the sedges and grasses along side the trail. (This was when my hearing was still acute enough to detect such high-frequency sounds.) It took me a while, but based on the emphatic commotion, I finally realized I was hearing either a romantic interlude or territorial…

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Northern short-tailed shrew (Blarina brevicauda) found frozen on a driveway. It has been a low snow year, but there is still enough for rodents to shelter in subnivean spaces. Not sure what he was doing above ground. Interestingly, this shrew species has venomous saliva that allows them to kill or paralyze their prey.