What’s Your Call on This Challenging Image

This challenging image was submitted by Joe Jankowski of  “The Invasive Species” with the following message:

Any ideas? I marked the small animal in the middle of the compost pile as “unidentified” Any ideas of identification?

It is a tricky image with the animal just barely visible behind the pile and obscured by shadow.  Take a look at the image:  http://reindeer.cc.trincoll.edu/CompostResearch/Actual/R9/MIX_R9S_101019_09-35-59_V_08_10.JPG

Then view it in the context of its consecutive images as provided by this video: Consec (n=10) MIX_R9S_101019_09-35-59_V_08_10 .   Finally, if you’re still wondering, you can see it as part of a slightly longer consecutive image series than that which the database provides: Consec (n=20) MIX_R9S_101019_09-35-59_V_08_10

What do you think?  Share your ideas.