The cloud of sediment that sometimes tells you you've just missed a water vole.
Comma
Common Blue
Small Copper
Red Admiral
Skipper
Juvenile common newts, found under an abandoned suitcase on a brownfield site (Mile Bank)
Large White
Holly Blue
Chocolate Tip
Privet Hawk moth
Ragged Robin
Grass snake
OK, water voles don't produce their own ink cloud, but they do rely on a cloud of sediment they kick up to escape from predators.
3 comments:
Nice collection of photos Kate.
Hello, I saw a water vole yesterday on the Avon, just above Old Sarum. It did exactly what you r photographs show!
Cool! Let the local Wildlife Trust know.
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