Just getting off the drag with my daughter and KenX, and daughter shouts out "Dad mind the mouse" or words to that effect, and I thought I wasn't hearing straight and then this mouse makes a bee-line across the snow to me and promptly thinks that the gap between the bottom of my boot and ski is a safe option.
Ok maybe in Spring but not the end of December!
KenX then managed to get him to come out enough for me to pick it up and then I skied back down to the nearest resto and dropped him off.
And although you meant well by taking it off the hill, unfortunately this will probably have done for it. Somewhere near to where you picked it up, it will have had a burrow with a nest and food store for the winter. It was just out for a quick forage (they don't hibernate).
Almost always best to leave wildlife where you find it to look after itself.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
CathS wrote:
It's a vole.
And although you meant well by taking it off the hill, unfortunately this will probably have done for it. Somewhere near to where you picked it up, it will have had a burrow with a nest and food store for the winter. It was just out for a quick forage (they don't hibernate).
Almost always best to leave wildlife where you find it to look after itself.
Hear what you say, but I'm damn sure if we'd left him there he would soon have become piste-kill as where he was was just after the end of a drag lift as you were about to commence the run, and you saw the way he ran to get between my ski and boot!!
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RIP, little one.
After all it is free
After all it is free
I had to spend €40k last summer, having a massive vole-proof poured-concrete retaining wall built. Our chalet was in danger of ending up on the valley floor thanks to the efforts of these little buggers over the last 170 years!
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Yep water voles are quite a common sight in the Pennines during a hard winter. They are a protected species here and it is an offence to interfere with them. Not sure what sort of vole that is though ?
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CathS wrote:
It's a vole.
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A campagnol terrestre I think. They won't appreciate him in town.
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My old neighbour tells me there's been an increase in campagnol numbers (and tunnelling-related damage) since people stopped keeping geese.
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