Country Park 2011

Dead and desiccated juvenile common newt, from our garden pond.

Buzzard
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Male chaffinch

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Otter spraint under the concrete bridge.

Tons of spawn!
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I'll be keeping a very close eye on Greenfields Nature Reserve (the country park) this year because last summer the water voles here disappeared due to mink predation. I have no idea whether either mink or voles will return. There are no signs of either yet, though there's plenty of otter spraint under the bridge.

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There are also dozens of active frogs in the pond created a couple of years ago by the Whitchurch Water Vole Group and, along with the frogs, bucketfuls of spawn.