While looking for snakes this week I came across a small mammal. The Meadow Vole is a small, common rodent that lives in grassy fields, woodland, marshes, often along lakes and rivers.
This creature is active year-round, usually at night. Meadow Voles make nests in clumps of grass. From their nests, they build tunnels beneath the grass and plants.
The Meadow Vole’s diet includes many things, including grasses, sedges, seeds, flowers, leaves and roots. These animals can eat their weight daily. These mammals occur throughout most of the northern and eastern United States and Canada.
Meadow Voles have a remarkable reproductive output. Females can breed when they are a month old and produce litters of 3-10 pups every three weeks for the duration of their lives. Their typical lifespan is 12-18 months.