Tales of the Riverbank

The blackbird that lives by White Lion Meadow (Tesco) . Fresh water vole droppings in the ditch by Grocontinental. . Field vole droppings...

Me with a bit of field vole feeding Hugh Fun day out meeting Hugh Warwick, hedgehog-enthusiast and journalist http://www.urchin.info/ an...

Two feeding stations Latrine This overgrown ditch, near Saddler's Walk, has very little water in it, but a quick peek showed plenty of w...

Tortoiseshell Red Admiral Dragonfly (Southern Hawker?) at Colemere Burrow at Edward German Drive Feeding at White Lion Meadow Dropping...

I've had to lighten the photo massively as everything was getting dark, but this was the second vole of the evening. The storm we had th...

...it's always reassuring to see a vole. They can get swept away and drowned when water levels rise very quickly. Aside from rats, that...

Managing to get sightings, despite the squally weather. Light rain never hurt a water vole, but heavy downpours can cause flash flooding wh...

The water level's very low at the moment, so even the minnows are making quite dramatic ripples. That, coupled with blackbirds rooting i...

Two voles tonight, at Yockings Gate. Good to see after the floods!

...you stand for half an hour and see nothing, as I did this morning. That's the way of wildlife watching. But there were fresh footprin...

Lots more prints, especially by the bridge. Are the voles coming out just at night? because there's obviously plenty of activity going o...