Today's Garden Visitor
He (or she...) looks surprisingly clean for a creature what lives underground. And look at those claws!
If you took 72.. could you show some more photos please?


Wonder if it is a he or a she. I thinks it's a male.
John K
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John K
Yes, but who would know (if I hadn't said?!)
How do we know you didn't find the ex-mole on the lawn and stuff it in a hole for it's immortal pose?!
Just a thought, did you put anything on the lawn which might have affected it or it's food, like lawn sand?
Yes, but who would know (if I hadn't said?!)
How do we know you didn't find the ex-mole on the lawn and stuff it in a hole for it's immortal pose?!
Just a thought, did you put anything on the lawn which might have affected it or it's food, like lawn sand?
A: Because I photographed it running round digging up worms and finding plenty (see OP.) I have another 72+ pictures along with that one! It is uncommon to see them in daylight so its behaviour wasn't natural.
B: On day 2 it was a dead mole on the lawn and I did do as you suggest for posterity - I said so in the comment along with the photo!
With regard to chemicals I do not use them, certainly no lawn sand or feed the weeds fertilizer but I cannot speak about neighbours. I don't think my garden can have been its regular home as we haven't had mole hills for several years.
I happened to be in a museum yesterday who had a mole on display in their natural history section. I suspect that one had passed away at least several years ago!
As with the museum, one has to make most of opportunities. To get that photo for real would be nigh on impossible as even then I had to take several to get it right. Maybe one of those PIR cameras might have captured a similar photo for real but somehow it wouldn't have the quality of using a K-1 and having a PIR camera I often find the subject gone before the camera fires. It has captured badger shots which is why I bought one as I did suspect a badger was visiting and wanted to find out for sure.
PIR badger videos:
http://jkpg.ddns.net/piwigo/picture.php?/1713/category/62
http://jkpg.ddns.net/piwigo/picture.php?/1721/category/62
But that PIR camera couldn't focus close enough for the mole shot. It would have been tiny as in this wood mouse capture:
http://jkpg.ddns.net/piwigo/picture.php?/1722/category/62
John K
Yes, but who would know (if I hadn't said?!)
How do we know you didn't find the ex-mole on the lawn and stuff it in a hole for it's immortal pose?!
Just a thought, did you put anything on the lawn which might have affected it or it's food, like lawn sand?
A: Because I photographed it running round digging up worms and finding plenty (see OP.) I have another 72+ pictures along with that one! It is uncommon to see them in daylight so its behaviour wasn't natural.
B: On day 2 it was a dead mole on the lawn and I did do as you suggest for posterity - I said so in the comment along with the photo!
With regard to chemicals I do not use them, certainly no lawn sand or feed the weeds fertilizer but I cannot speak about neighbours. I don't think my garden can have been its regular home as we haven't had mole hills for several years.
I happened to be in a museum yesterday who had a mole on display in their natural history section. I suspect that one had passed away at least several years ago!
As with the museum, one has to make most of opportunities. To get that photo for real would be nigh on impossible as even then I had to take several to get it right. Maybe one of those PIR cameras might have captured a similar photo for real but somehow it wouldn't have the quality of using a K-1 and having a PIR camera I often find the subject gone before the camera fires. It has captured badger shots which is why I bought one as I did suspect a badger was visiting and wanted to find out for sure.
PIR badger videos:
http://jkpg.ddns.net/piwigo/picture.php?/1713/category/62
http://jkpg.ddns.net/piwigo/picture.php?/1721/category/62
But that PIR camera couldn't focus close enough for the mole shot. It would have been tiny as in this wood mouse capture:
http://jkpg.ddns.net/piwigo/picture.php?/1722/category/62
I was speaking with my tongue firmly in my cheek, I wasn't seriously suggesting you had faked the final photo! I remember as a lad finding a dead mole and taking it to the biology lesson in school, only for dozens of maggots to start crawling out over the desk! These are really nice photos and well done for taking the opportunity.
John K
Malc
JAK
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Scarborough, North Yorks.
Mole Eating Worm
That's a mole eating a worm, not a worm that's mole eating!
Not something one sees very often, indeed I've never witnessed this before. I thought moles lived underground.
He was quite happy to let me follow him round and get close for photos (took 72, mostly useless!) His head seemed permanently buried in the ground.
PS We've no mole hills (yet!)
John K