Not For the Squeamish
Rodents play a crucial role in the foodchain for many predators at Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge. The Townsend’s vole is a food source for a variety of predators, including herons, egrets, hawks, owls, and coyotes. Kestrels are much smaller than most hawks and all eagles, and this female has caught something much smaller than a vole: a mouse. There are two species of mice at Ridgefield, the deer mouse and the Pacific jumping mouse, and I’m not sure which one this is.
Was. Which one this was.
