I've just been and had a look, and the work looks very good. Opening up the banks to the light means they might get grassier, which means more food and better cover/ burrowing. If trees overhang water, vegetation often can't grow properly.
Management like this is best done over winter, too. So once again, well done NSDC.
I think that's exactly what they do. In the cold months they spend long periods underground, and maybe even go into periods of torpor, though they don't hibernate. They eat food they've stored - I heard of a farmer who accidentally uncovered a water vole burrow/chamber and found it was full of potatoes!
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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I hope the tree felling by the brook does not upset them too much.
I've just been and had a look, and the work looks very good. Opening up the banks to the light means they might get grassier, which means more food and better cover/ burrowing. If trees overhang water, vegetation often can't grow properly.
Management like this is best done over winter, too. So once again, well done NSDC.
Maybe they just popped outside for a quick scoff!
I think that's exactly what they do. In the cold months they spend long periods underground, and maybe even go into periods of torpor, though they don't hibernate. They eat food they've stored - I heard of a farmer who accidentally uncovered a water vole burrow/chamber and found it was full of potatoes!
Ahh, that's where my spuds disappeared to! How cute.
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