Families Still Expanding

Grazing by water voles. 

Above and below, latrines at White Lion Meadow car park.

 My first Clouded Yellow!

 I'm finding burrows well away from the brook now. Derek Gow thinks this might be because the population is doing so well this year and the banks of the stream are becoming crowded.

Above, "Tiny Spot" and below, the dark vole who might be its mother and who holds one of the territories around this area.

 This is how small a newly-out-of-the-nest water vole is.