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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Corvus cornix" data-source="post: 3242568" data-attributes="member: 132024">Shrews have a notoriously high metabolic rate and need to eat a huge amount of food every day just to survive, eating almost constantly. When two individuals have a territorial dispute it's not uncommon for at least one of them to die of exhaustion and be found apparently uninjured. That could be one theory for the presence of the shrews. As for the moles, generally the only time I've seen live moles above ground is when they've been flooded out by high water table levels. Again, these may have suffered from a food shortage. Has there been any extreme weather recently?Cheers</blockquote>