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Myodes glareolus
After looking at the types of mice we get in the woods in Belgium and Nederland I think this little hidden beauty I saw a while ago in the middle of our woods is a bank vole. Small voles have red-brown fur and some grey patches, with a tail about half as long as its body. A rodent, it lives in woodland areas and is around 100 millimetres (3.9 in) in length.
Wooded area. Meerdaalbos. The bank vole lives in woodland, hedgerows and other dense vegetation such as bracken and bramble. Its underground chamber is lined with moss, feathers and vegetable fibre and contains a store of food. It can live for eighteen months to two years and is mostly herbivorous, eating buds, bark, seeds, leaves and fruits and occasionally insects and other small invertebrates. It readily climbs into scrub and low branches of trees. It breeds in shallow burrows, the female rearing about four litters of pups during the summer.
Spotted on Jan 19, 2014
Submitted on Feb 15, 2014
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