Above, a wood mouse. Below, field (short-tailed) voles.
Hibernating snails
Above, a common toad; below, just the nose of a common shrew.
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WendyB
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Aww, gorgeous pics ! Love the toad ! Three water vole sightings here since late February, in two distinct territories - with one each on Friday/Saturday 6/7 March. The one on Saturday (a fairly warm day) came swimming along with a moorhen in rather determined pursuit, then rummaged about on the banks for a while (looking very much like a rat at distance - I think I saw water voles on the banks of this ditch a couple of times 10 - 15 years ago, but had assumed they were just common brown rats... :) The water vole on Friday was pulling vegetation (mostly dried stuff) into a burrow. They're still shy and jumpy. Maybe they haven't quite got going yet further north? Looking forward to seeing your first pics.
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?
1 comment:
Aww, gorgeous pics ! Love the toad ! Three water vole sightings here since late February, in two distinct territories - with one each on Friday/Saturday 6/7 March. The one on Saturday (a fairly warm day) came swimming along with a moorhen in rather determined pursuit, then rummaged about on the banks for a while (looking very much like a rat at distance - I think I saw water voles on the banks of this ditch a couple of times 10 - 15 years ago, but had assumed they were just common brown rats... :) The water vole on Friday was pulling vegetation (mostly dried stuff) into a burrow. They're still shy and jumpy. Maybe they haven't quite got going yet further north? Looking forward to seeing your first pics.
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