If you were watching tonight's episode of The Nature of Britain, you'll have seen footage towards the end of these very voles! It was a preview clip, and I think the main piece is schduled for Wednesday October 31st. Terrifically exciting for the Whitchurch Water Vole group (link on the right) who've been working hard for eighteen months now, monitoring and recording and protecting and creating new habitat.
http://www.open2.net/breathingplaces/regions.html
And I had a sighting this evening as well!
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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?
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- 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:
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- Beautiful French wildlife blog
- ARKive short video clips and photos of water voles
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- The Nature of Britain, BBC1, 9pm, Wednesday Oct 31st
- Meanwhile, on opposite sides of the bridge...
- Well blow me, water voles eat snails.
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- Worrying Tracks
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- A 6pm sighting tonight.
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- BBC video of our Albert looking for voles at Whitw...
- Fame!
- Brown Moss newts
- Good news from the EA: they were on the case last ...
- Vole of the Day
- Turn up the volume to hear chomping
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- Checking for prints on the Prees Branch Canal
- Camouflage
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3 comments:
I missed that, but shall definitely tune in on the 31st. There was a really good piece about rearing otter cubs a few weeks ago but I don't know if it was the same prog.
It might have been 'Nature's Calendar' - TNOB has only just started. Channel 5 are also running a programme about Chester Zoo between 6.30 and 7 every night. Hoping those voles might get featured, too!
Saw them, larger than life, on the screen. Looking forward to the Oct 31st programme!
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