Letter: Thanks to My Encouraging and Correcting Readers

Published on: 8 Nov, 2019
Updated on: 8 Nov, 2019

Malcolm Fincham

From Malcolm Fincham

The Dragon’s birdwatching diarist

Regarding: Birdwatcher’s Diary No.197

I wish to thank all my readers and those that have made comments on my recent reports. They are very encouraging, as well as interesting.

I would especially like to thank Katharine Sawyer for correcting me. I had foolishly gone along with the consensus of the people around me, at the time, that the little mammal spotted on the Isles of Scilly was a bank vole.

With hindsight, it did look too small to be one. It did pass my thoughts that it might be a field mouse as the nose didn’t look quite long enough to be a shrew, though the ears don’t seem prominent enough to be a field mouse?

So thanks to Katharine for the correction. I have now changed it to “lesser -white tooth shrew” but I would welcome any other verdicts on the subject of this cute little critter.