Monday 26 March 2018

Sunday 25 March 2018

Keenly Waiting for Other Colonies






The action's still all at White Lion Meadow, though I did hear a vole crunching reeds today at Edgeley Road...

Friday 23 March 2018

Sunday 11 March 2018

Tell-tale Prints







It's been a couple of weeks since I've had a sighting, but I knew the voles were about because of their paw prints in the mud. Early in the year this is sometimes the only field sign, and it's not always reliable because rat prints can look very similar. Water vole paw prints tend to be more splayed, though - what we call "starry". And here's a vole to prove ownership.