It was hard to get into focus through the tangle of briars, but here's a fresh water vole latrine on a bit of floating wood by the railway bridge near Homebase. (You can click the photo to enlarge it slightly.) . At the end of last year I found no signs at all - the feeding and burrow action was up the other end, by the old railway man's cottage. However, it looks as though at least one breeding female's returned.
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?
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