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Swimming Shrew

            I was walking round a moorland reservoir this morning when I spotted some tiny ripples in an otherwise flat surface.  I could see a tiny animal swimming away but I wasn't sure what species it was.  I moved along the bank to catch up with it, by which time it had swum at least 100m.  By this time I could see it was a shrew but I only managed a couple of photographs before it reached the bank and promptly disappeared into thick vegetation.  I knew that Water Shrews were good at swimming but I hadn't realised that Common Shrews could swim too.  I checked the Handbook of British Mammals when I got home and it says they swim well, and can cover hundreds of metres, but they never dive, unlike Water Shrew which regularly dives.  You can positively identify this as a Common Shrew from the similar Pygmy Shrew by the distinct border between its brown back and buffy flanks, also by its relatively short tail.  Water Shrews have black, not brown upperparts.
   

Taken on: July 8, 2018

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Sorex

araneus

Shrew

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Holmfirth

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Yorkshire

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