Courtesy of John Harding, and also this lovely video of Rosie Rees's from last year: http://www.vimeo.com/622188
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
The diary of a water vole colony
Labels
- adder (4)
- Ash (1)
- bank vole (6)
- barn owl (3)
- bat (1)
- Belton Farm (1)
- Bettisfield (1)
- Black Park Road (31)
- blue-green algae (2)
- Brick Kiln Farm (5)
- Broughall (12)
- Brown Moss (5)
- burrow (107)
- burrows (2)
- Chester zoo (4)
- Colemere (2)
- Coton (1)
- council (37)
- Criftins (1)
- ditch near Grocontinental (45)
- ditch near Lidl (2)
- dormice (1)
- dragonfly (6)
- Edward German Drive (73)
- Ellesmere (2)
- Environment Agency (31)
- feeding (143)
- Feeding station (83)
- field off Edgeley Road (425)
- field vole (44)
- Fordhall Farm (2)
- gardening (3)
- Grange Farm Ash (2)
- Greenfields Rise (1)
- Griffiths Tool Hire (3)
- Grocontinental (2)
- habitat (2)
- hares (9)
- harvest mouse (4)
- hedgehog (31)
- kit (4)
- latrine (281)
- lawn (1)
- lizard (20)
- Llangollen canal (3)
- mating (3)
- Mile Bank Road (7)
- mink (8)
- mole (1)
- moths (2)
- mouse (5)
- Nantwich (3)
- nest (2)
- newt (14)
- Norfolk (2)
- otter (45)
- plate (3)
- polecat (4)
- pollution (3)
- predator (51)
- Prees Branch Canal (35)
- Prees Heath (18)
- Prints (101)
- Quoisley Bridge (3)
- Raft (25)
- railway bridge by Homebase (42)
- rat (51)
- red squirrels (1)
- run (1)
- Saddlers Walk (23)
- Shropshire Wildlife Trust (4)
- Sighting (706)
- skull (2)
- snake (5)
- sparrowhawk (1)
- Steel Heath (6)
- stoat (7)
- timber yard (61)
- toad (5)
- trackway (5)
- vole spoon (4)
- water level (11)
- water shrew (15)
- Wayland Road (9)
- Waymills (6)
- weasel (7)
- Wem Moss (2)
- Whitchurch Country Park (64)
- White Lion Meadow car park (near Tesco) (427)
- Whitwater (Hickory Hollow) (3)
- Whixall (6)
- Whixall Moss (22)
- wood mouse (4)
- Wybunbury Moss (5)
- Yockings Gate (18)
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
7 comments:
Fantastic!
Lovely video, and a bit about two minutes in when you get a good view of the splayed front foot that produces the starry prints.
Good tip!
We have a very similar looking blackbird that visits the garden. I wonder how big an area they cover? Have you seen the Shell Wildlife Photographer of the Year photos? They are being exhibited at the Blue Planet Aquarium at the moment. They are amazing! There is a lovely water vole photo you might be interested it. You can view it online. Thought you might like to see it! Sue.
Thanks, Sue, I'll check it out! They have some amazing photos in the BBC Wildlife magazine, too, and also on the Wild About Britain forum.
My guess is it's the same blackbird, because how likely is it there are two with white heads? but they must have bugger territories than I thought. Mind you, I know nowt about blackbirds.
Did you mean to say "bugger" ?!
A Fredulent slip me thinks, that's when you say one thing but mean a mother !
Whoops! Er, no.
Drat these non-editable comment boards. :-)
Post a Comment