I suppose it was always inevitable that there would be water shrews on site but I hadn't actually identified one until today. I found a corpse outside and measurements and colouring show it to be a water shrew rather than a common shrew. They are larger and blacker than common shrews and also have white hairs around the ears and under the tail. It seems that they don't taste very good (to cats) so it is probably a cat's victim that was left in disgust.
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