Wildlife Gardening: Anyone out there watering their window wells?, 1 by Equilibrium

Equilibrium wrote:
I swear window wells are death traps. I found this little guy quite by accident early this morning. I was tossing in a load of laundry and noticed that two of my cats were perched on the sill in front of one of my window wells and another of my cats was between those two plastered against the glass with his two front legs up and spread like he was going to be frisked by a cop. I knew there was something in there but I figured it was a frog or a toad.

The little guy I pulled out of the window well is the North American Short-Tailed Shrew, (Blarina brevicauda). He doesn't hibernate and he has a metabolism rate that is incredible so he's really lucky I removed all the leaf litter at the bottom of that window well and dug him out to set him free or he would have been dead. Cute little thing. Velvety like the Eastern Moles (Scalopus aquaticus) we have around here. I swear they both remind me of adorable little tiny plush stuffed animals. I released him in an area where I knew there were some abandoned chippie holes.