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The diary of a water vole colony
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About this Blog
This blog charts the fortunes of water voles in and around the Whitchurch area, North Shropshire. Water voles are one of the UK's most threatened mammals, extinct in many counties, and so it's vital they receive as much monitoring and protection as there is going. Here in Whitchurch we're lucky enough to have them right in the middle of town - how cool is that?
Links
- Wood Lane Nature Reserve at Ellesemere
- Wildlife Kate (not me!)
- Whitchurch Water Vole Group
- Views of the Ock - another water vole blog
- Terry Whittaker's wonderful vole photos
- Shropshire CC countryside information
- Richard Steel's wildlife photographs
- Out and About nature blog
- Jo Cartmell's shiny new Water Vole Info site
- Gilly Otter's lovely blog
- Derek Gow, Water Vole Expert
- Countryside Tales
- Contact the Environment Agency about river pollution here:
- Careering Through Nature
- Beautiful French wildlife blog
- ARKive short video clips and photos of water voles
Blog Archive
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2007
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March
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- Food chain
- Waymills
- Nesting
- You are invited
- Vole love
- This is a vole John Harding saw on the 21st, and I...
- A Less Charming View
- Water Vole Sighting
- A petition worth supporting
- Waymills again
- Curious bird
- Feeding Station
- Another sighting
- Water Vole, March 8th
- Another vole
- News just in!
- Progress
- Name That Reed
- Prints, trolley, you know the drill
- Small hope
- VOLE!
- Unbelievable!
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March
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4 comments:
What are the post nuptial arrangements for Mr & Mrs Vole? Does the bloke hang around and help decorate the nursery? Or does he go looking for wife number two and leave the domestic stuff to the mum to be?
I’ve only just twigged vole is an anagram of love - someone has to be last!
According to S R Ryder, in the excellent Sunday Times 'Animals of Britain' series, the male does stick by the female and help sort out a nesting chamber.
Whether they mate for life, though, I don't know. A vole only survives through one or two summers, so it wouldn't be that long-term a commitment!
Further to Dave's post, Water Vole ia an anagram of "A Wet Lover", quite appropriate given the time of year and their habitat !!!
Marvellous!
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