After the wood mouse, this is another animal that has shown up while the trail camera is watching the water shrew. Water rails are shy birds, preferring to stay in cover in or around the water's edge. This one was unaware of the camera and was searching for food. It didn't find the water shrew's larder, or perhaps the larder was empty.
On the last video early one morning the water rail moved from the water shrew camera round to the culvert camera a few inches away and found a worm in the culvert. It just goes to show...
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