Here's one I made earlier

And a picture of the feeding station afterwards. I'll be honest; I don't know why they do this, go to all the trouble of making piles of chopped grass. It's not as though grass is in short supply! Afterwards the vole just swam away.

Making a larder

Country Park

Took a walk down the Country Park this afternoon. Unsurprised to find a Tesco trolley there, but I was pleased to note water vole prints all the way along the banks. Lots of green dock leaf beetles, too; not rare or anything, but very pretty.

Individuals

I once kidded a friend that I'd been taught to recognise each vole individually, but actually I bet I could recognise this one again, with the dark patch on its (his?) head.
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They're feeding a great deal on the willow catkins, which I suppose are full of protein in the form of pollen. They also seem quite troubled by mites!

Where are the females?

Underground looking after the babies, I suspect.

April 25th

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These videos can take as much as 2 minutes to crank up, by the way. (Edited in the light of Dave's comment below!) If you have speakers on your PC, turn them up to hear the birdsong.

Well, Gee

That lasted a long time (not).