Yay! Great to see the pawprints! I love the lapwings photo too.
Some possible 'evidence' here in Cambridge is that there looks to be freshly disturbed black earth at the entrances of 3 or 4 burrows. However I've only recently seen two field mice scurrying in and out of there...
A pair of swans seem to have got rather ensconced on the ditch just recently, though they do sometimes disappear for a few days at a time. It's a small ditch - do swans and voles get on ?
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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Yay! Great to see the pawprints! I love the lapwings photo too.
Some possible 'evidence' here in Cambridge is that there looks to be freshly disturbed black earth at the entrances of 3 or 4 burrows. However I've only recently seen two field mice scurrying in and out of there...
A pair of swans seem to have got rather ensconced on the ditch just recently, though they do sometimes disappear for a few days at a time. It's a small ditch - do swans and voles get on ?
Actually, I need to check this. I'm not sure.
Field voles will use water vole burrows, I think. We'll see what happens!
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