Snow and Mediterranean Pine Voles

[Tinkerbell]

Whilst recently walking to the Poqueira Hut in the Sierra Nevada I spotted some little holes with flattened tunnel type areas. These are normally covered by snow but this area had a little snow melt and showed these little homes. Turns out they are the homes of either snow voles or mediterranean pine voles. We must have been walking over these little animals living under the snow, I hope they have never been crampond

[La Gringa]

Poor little things, I suppose people regularly deviating from the normal path due to the lower snow line this year has destroyed their habitat

[Tinkerbell]

Good point I hadnt thought about that, I wondered why I hadnt seen them before