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Index of Subjects Andy Dean wrote: > Whilst eating lunch one day , sitting by the dining room window, > we watched a short-tailed vole emerge from it's den under a stump and > make several trips back and forth to a small surviving patch of > crocus. It was dragging blossoms , one at a time, with which to > decorate the entrance to its den.....we figured it was an > aesthetically minded individual and the purpose purely decorative, but > there may have been a more practical use for the flowers. Last spring I watched a short-tailed shrew doing the same thing, only with clover leaves, stems and all. It didn't seem to be looking particularly for four-leafed clovers. Doug Linzey
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