Hedgehogs Warming Up

Things are getting territorial in the garden...

Finally, at Edgeley Road

  

White Lion Meadow vole

Pied flycatcher and treecreeper, Malpas

Edgeley Road vole, the first of this year

Fighting

The half-blind vole at White Lion Meadow

Victorious after a scrap at the timber yard.

Water vole-feeding on the bank at White Lion Meadow

A poor photo, but it does show two fighting voles. They're probably two females trying to stake out territory.

The serious problem for water voles at Edward German Drive. If you're a responsible owner, please, please fit your cat with a flashing-light collar, and keep them in at night. It's safer and kinder for the cat, too.

I've never had so many sightings at Edward German Drive. The problem with this site, sadly, is domestic cats.

Still regular vole activity at White Lion Meadow and the timber yard.

More Sightings

Voles at Edward German Drive and the timber yard.

Mysterious Black Voles

My friend's black water vole

Burrows at Edgeley Road

Droppings at Edgeley Road

It's true you get melanistic mammals in lots of varieties - grey squirrels are probably the commonest - but it's very unusual to see a black water vole outside Scotland. This particular vole is in Cambridge!

Edward German Drive

 Burrow with grazing round the entrance

Water vole grazing

I'd stopped to take a photo of some grazing at Edward German Drive when a water vole popped up. There are burrows and lots of feeding too.

The vole at the bottom in the one with the poorly eye at White Lion Meadow.