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Molluscs - Snails & Slugs Page 1

Image Taken on 04 Aug 2008 at 02:01 Image of day on 19 Aug 2008

The left and right halves of this pic are separated by 17 minutes at 2 a.m. but make an attractive pairing. We haven't seen the vole for some time - the log had been sinking into the ground so that it had not been breaking the beam.

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Image Taken on 13 Jun 2010 at 00:19 Image of day on 22 Jul 2010

And a short tailed field vole checking over a slug a few days later.
(Genuine single frame).

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Image Taken on 07 May 2007 at 03:49 Image of day on 22 May 2007

After the first decent rain for a month out come the slugs & snails to join the fieldmice.

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Image Taken on 03 Oct 2006 at 22:01 Image of day on 19 Oct 2006

Two opposing speeds of life illustrated in one photo.

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Image Taken on 28 May 2008 at 23:32 Image of day on 06 Jun 2008

Wet weather brings out the slugs. Looks like the mouse on the right has an obstacle course to run. The mouse just left of centre is behind the log.

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Image Taken on 28 Jun 2008 at 01:59 Image of day on 13 Jul 2008

The hole near this photo kit is in long grass on our side of the fence so we expect most of them to survive.

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Image Taken on 17 May 2007 at 02:40 Image of day on 29 May 2007

A bit of damp weather has brought all the slimy inhabitants out.

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Image Taken on 07 Jun 2007 at 01:45 Image of day on 25 Jun 2007

A sort of Hare and the Tortoise?

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Image Taken on 08 Jul 2009 at 23:14 Image of day on 15 Aug 2009

A mouse has found the 'anvil stone' site. This was probably photographed by something else breaking the beam out of frame. Mice apparently staring at slugs and snails is uncannily common and this was the first and (and with another week gone by) only image of a mouse at this site.

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Image Taken on 30 Apr 2010 at 23:02 Image of day on 01 Jun 2010

And the same evening a fieldmouse made it to the tree-trunk top and spent several minutes looking for food. Here he is eating a fragment of soft fruit. A leopard slug and tiny worm have also made the 1.5m ascent - no doubt much more slowly than the mouse.

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Image Taken on 28 Jul 2008 at 00:05 Image of day on 13 Aug 2008

Fieldmouse and Snail at the Camera 1 fruit stall.
Their visit were actually 9 minutes apart but we could not resist bringing them together.

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Image Taken on 14 May 2006 at 01:24 Image of day on 22 May 2006

Perhaps the fastest and the slowest. It certainly wasn't the snails that leapt up to break the beam.

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Image Taken on 28 Apr 2012 at 00:54 Image of day on 31 May 2012

We think this fieldmouse is licking the slug for its tasty mucus.
Ugh!

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Image Taken on 06 Aug 2006 at 03:25 Image of day on 19 Aug 2006

A fieldmouse and slug make a pair of unlikely overnight snack companions (3:25 a.m. BST)

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Image Taken on 17 Jun 2007 at 22:05 Image of day on 07 Jul 2007

The impression is of a who-gives-way confrontation. Probably a moment later the mouse walked over the slug.

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Image Taken on 14 Jun 2007 at 00:06 Image of day on 29 Jun 2007

Wet night brings out the slugs and mice.

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Image Taken on 20 Sep 2007 at 22:34 Image of day on 24 Oct 2007

Almost the hare and the tortoise. Many later images (snails don't rush!) show the snail survived the encounter unscathed.

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Image Taken on 07 Sep 2008 at 01:41 Image of day on 23 Sep 2008

Reminds us of the Olympic Steeplechase - with water splash and slug for a barrier.

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Image Taken on 23 Aug 2011 at 21:30 Image of day on 13 Oct 2011

Fieldmice have been all over the place last & this week and a bit of rain (about 12mm = half inch) has brought out the slugs and snails as well.

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Image Taken on 11 Aug 2010 at 21:41 Image of day on 21 Sep 2010

"What are you?"
A young mouse possibly having its first encounter with a leopard slug.

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