Suspect these snails have been eaten by voles.
Field vole latrine
Field vole burrow - with close-cropped lawn around the entrance!
I thought only water voles made lawns like this.
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Bagging up and labelling the otter spraint.
Gareth Parry and members of the Shropshire Mammal group are studying the impact of carnivores on water voles this year. Today we warmed up by taking a look at the profile of the brook as it passes through Whitchurch Country Park (Greenfields Nature Reserve). No obvious water vole signs, but the site's teeming with field voles and we also found otter, badger and fox scat along the same stretch.
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