Fame!

If you were watching tonight's episode of The Nature of Britain, you'll have seen footage towards the end of these very voles! It was a preview clip, and I think the main piece is schduled for Wednesday October 31st. Terrifically exciting for the Whitchurch Water Vole group (link on the right) who've been working hard for eighteen months now, monitoring and recording and protecting and creating new habitat.

http://www.open2.net/breathingplaces/regions.html

And I had a sighting this evening as well!

Brown Moss newts

Baby newts ready for hibernation, each about two inches long - photographed at Brown Moss. The vole below is at White Lion Meadow car park again. As is the trolley!

Good news from the EA: they were on the case last week re the sewage, and it's sorted. And cogs are in motion re the trolleys.
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Saw a vole this evening, but it was too dark to take a decent photo.

Vole of the Day

White Lion Meadow car park again.

Turn up the volume to hear chomping

Sewage?

I so need to work out how to change focus on my camera! Still, managed some shots of a vole in watercress, plus this lovely fly agaric toadstool on the bank. No problems at all when my subject's static.

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I'd like to be able to finish there, positively, but there's another Tesco trolley in the water (so we were two days free of them), and also I've had a report that last week some raw sewage was discharged into the brook. I'll report this, but it's so disheartening to hear.