The brook at Black Park Road
The year's first water vole burrows, in the field off Edgeley Road
Field vole feeding and droppings.
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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
6 comments:
So observant to find such signs!
Hundreds of hours' practice! Just you wait till I start seeing latrines. :-)
We have activity too!!
Just putting the pix into the blog post...
some nice video too.... but every time it has swum past...
I've not been able to get the camera up, focused, etc. in time.
I'll just have to sit outside the front door with the camera ready...
I've already played "Pooh voles" twice...
rushing from the lounge windows to the front door, to see it come out under the bridge....
but we've had a lot of rain recently and the millstream is in spate...
and "Socks" has been using the current...
and been too quick for me to catch a few frames!!
So we've got the LtlAcorn in place on a tripod and are relying on him taking "selfies"!
I'm very envious! Love your picture of a goldcrest, by the way.
The blog post is now up...
"The Owl in t'Ole, the Vole's 'Oles and a Coypu's rear end...."
the latest post from Aigronne Valley Wildlife tells of the trials and tribulations....
of getting good evidence of species activity!!
http://le-moulin-de-la-forge.blogspot.fr/2016/03/the-owl-in-tole-voles-oles-and-coypus.html
And the name "Socks" for our vole is because...
to me anyway... they look just like a pair of socks fresh from the clothes-line...
all bundled up ready for the sock-drawer... and floating along on top of the water.
The Goldcrest picture on Aigronne V.W. is one of my brother's...
as yet, I've never got near enough to one!!
But the little Siskins that are around at the moment are the most confiding little critters... they actually line up and watch me filling the feeders!!
They think I'm "Staff"...just like the cats!
Socks!! I love it. Terrific images, too.
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