Colonizing patches of exposed soil as nesting sites (it occasionally burrows into garden walls). Found on limestone grassland, chalk grassland, town parks and gardens, disturbed waste ground.(GB)
Virtually ubiquitous, including anthropogenic habitats such as town parks and gardens, roadside verges (DE).
Alpine meadows (AT)(Bossert, 2014)
River valleys with thermophilous vegetation, neighbouring fields (BG)
Roadside verges (FI).