Not sure whether the chap immediately above is a frog or a toad, but all of them I found under logs round Brown Moss. You can be fined thousands of pounds for interefering with GCNs, so you can be sure I put that bit of wood back very carefully! The tiny lizard in the middle I think is a common lizard. Update: see comments below. What we're looking at is newts and toads.
Here's our rabbit - he came from the direction of the swimming baths, but I still can't see there's a lot of cover for him in that area. Tonight's vole obligingly shows its ears: very small and close to its head, as opposed to a rat's or a mouse's.
The water vole group went down to the nature reserve at Brown Moss today, which is on the Prees (south) side of Whitchurch. We looked at two pools specifically and found evidence of feeding, plus some latrines. The nest above, made of woven grass, we think may be field vole - there were lots of field vole signs around - but Albert (above) had seen a water vole one too which was similar in structure but bigger, about the size of a football.
