The only visible latrine by the timber yard is still being refreshed, so there's clearly still presence down there. The photograph above is a car park vole, spotted this afternoon.
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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
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April
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- Fordhall Mystery
- Assortment
- Black Park Road
- Rat holes and vole burrows
- Fellow Blogger
- Car Park
- Latrines as an indicator of water vole numbers
- Feeding herself up
- More nesting (and swimming)
- Comparison between rat and water vole droppings
- Meanwhile, back in the car park
- Saddlers Walk
- New ditch
- Vole of the day
- Activity at the Prees Branch Canal
- White Lion Meadow mystery
- Better Frogs
- Greenfields Rise
- Size
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April
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3 comments:
I'm sorry but that is such a cute picture and made me smile a lot. I really hope I see some water voles this year they are such gorgeous little creatures. Thanks. Jane
Do they have voles in Florida? I bet they do, of some description.
They have palm rats... but I must admit when they started running around the house at night I wasn't too keen on them! No water voles in the Keys (as not enough fresh water) but on the mainland I expect they have them. We are going to France in July to a vole hot-spot, so I will be looking out for them there and of course I'm still looking for them at home on the Stour in Dorset. Jane
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