Nice rear shot above of the rounded rump of a water vole, and its dark brown tail. Rats' tails are pinky-grey in colour. This is also the vole with the slight fur loss round her left eye. I don't think it can be mange as it hasn't got any worse for weeks.
Top photo is another, slightly lighter-coloured vole. I saw three different water voles this evening.
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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