Southern Short-tailed Shrew

Southern Short-tailed Shrew (Blarina carolinensis), I believe. Found under leaf litter (Durham, North Carolina) in the fall while I was raking leaves. I captured it carefully in a cardboard box and put it into an open area for photography. It seemed rather disoriented in the open and held still for a minute or two. I released in in some dense leaf litter.

 

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