Usually an adult water vole would see off a juvenile, especially one that was going near its food. So we have to assume this is a mum vole and one of her offspring, maybe eight weeks old?
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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