Again, not a fantastic picture of a water vole, but all these photos on this blog are for records only. The trackway immediately above is another kind of field sign to look out for.
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The diary of a water vole colony
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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
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May
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- Prees Branch again
- Visiting Hedgehog
- An Invitation
- Yockings Gate and Black Park Road
- Water Voles in your Garden
- Hijacked by Dormice
- Vole's Eye View
- Fight!
- Two voles tonight
- Tonight's vole, plus I also offer this photo of a ...
- Maybe they're getting a little bolder. This one t...
- Hide and Seek
- What councils can do to help water voles
- View from a bridge
- A vole and a trackway
- Two voles
- Feeding frenzy at the Prees Branch canal
- 4 days, 4 sightings, 0 vole pictures. I don't know...
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4 comments:
Are there more or less voles this year than last in your brook, do you think? Not sure how you'd go about counting them, other than noting how often you spot some.
My local water company are working to reintroduce voles in a nearby river (the Stour) which is good news.
Fewer than 2006 - a freak year when the banks were teeming - but more than this time 2007 when they were just about to disappear for two months, chased off by rats.
Very pleased to hear about the Stour reintroduction. I hope the people behind it are establishing several separate colonies - what they call a meta-population - controlling any mink in the area, and creating 'wildlife corridors' to maintain healthy gene stock. (Pointless releasing voles just for them be predated upon, and isolated colonies always die out eventually.)
I wonder whether Derek Gow's involved? He breeds water voles; my dream job!
I'll see what I can find out. I only heard about the Stour reintroduction via a glossy leaflet from the water company which came through the door.
Ooh, yes, let us know.
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