Serious Concerns About Council Contractors

 White Lion Meadow vole with a wound on its back.

Yellow wagtail.

 Adult vole at Edward German Drive.

I have serious concerns about the management of the voles' habitat at Edward German Drive, and I've emailed Shropshire Council about it. The contractors have not only mowed over water vole burrows, leaving them exposed, they've used weedkiller on a patch near the sluice gate and again by the pipe at White Lion Meadow. Why have they done this, when for years they've been so careful? I'm waiting for their answer, and will update when I have it. Hoping no voles have been poisoned! 

Possibly a baby vole at Edward German Drive.

Below, a water vole with bits of feeding, at Griffiths Tool Hire.

Hedgehogs busy in my garden. 

All Around the Town

 White Lion Meadow vole

Vole below Griffiths Tool Hire yard.

 Vole at Edward German Drive. This one had a horrific injury above its tail so

 I don't know what its chances are long-term.

 Grey wagtail at Wayland Road

 Wayland Road, and below, a water vole from that stretch.

Below, two water voles from White Lion Meadow. One is a vole with a spot on its head, which is a mark I've seen on several sites around Whitchurch over the 14 years I've been studying water voles.

'Griffiths Tool-Hire' Voles

 A Timber Yard vole.

 Above: baby vole, White Lion Meadow car park, and below, another Timber Yard vole.

The brook as it runs past the Timber Yard.

I was excited to find tat the stretch between Edward German Drive and Griffiths Tool Hire is also full of signs - burrows, trackways, feeding, and then an actual vole sighting. This area's been used as a passageway before but I've never seen is colonised as busily as it is this spring.