Traces of shrews, voles and mice in the early winter

Shrews are not affected by hibernation. Often in the winter they climb into the houses and barns, and in March, again returned to the forests and groves, where they dig in the snow their long passages. Shrew does not eat plant foods, and attacking all living things that can overpower. In the summer she often eats insects. But what it can to maintain their lives in the winter when insects are disappearing? Overwintering insects shrew finds and under the snow. And besides, it is very good at cracking down on mice and voles. Both are bigger and stronger than her, but the shrew quicker and more agile. Shrew very gluttonous: for one day she eats a meal no less than its own weight. Not one animal, except for bats, so quickly does not digest food. But shrew soon begins to starve: it can not survive without food and a few hours. Left overnight in a cage without food shrew in the morning has died. Shrew appears with the onset of winter in cellars and barns, grain is not due to cereal grains: it is up to them and not touching. She goes there to hunt. Often when parsing stack of straw found in the middle of the skins of voles and mice. This work shrews. Traces of gray voles resemble traces shrews. But they are larger and deeper. Vole is heavier and sinks, where easy runs easy shrew. Even bigger tracks of forest and field mice. In contrast, voles and shrews mouse run across the races. They do sometimes jump up to 30 cm long. In a very soft snow traces of their feet are merged into a single hole, behind which is seen a narrow groove, the tail imprint. Traces of mice often be seen at the beginning of winter. Later, when it gets colder and the snow is deeper, animals rarely come to the surface. They are trying to get into the stack in stacks, barns and threshing floors or dig trenches in the snow, searching for fallen seeds on the ground herbs.