Tales of the Riverbank

This is a baby, and about the size of a field vole.

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

A fantastic place, this - right by Furbur's scrap yard, thus providing entertainment for my other half while I go poking about in ditche...

These are dead easy if you have a kit like Forsham Cottage Arks supply (see link on right). Basically it's a floating open-ended box co...

Hundreds of people in Whitchurch live in houses that back onto or directly face the brook, so our survey group has been busy distributing t...

Another wildlife-friendly farmer here. Whixall Hall Farm runs alongside the Prees Branch canal, and there's plenty of evidence of breed...

Took the children to Chester Zoo today and was delighted to find they'd established their colony of free-range water voles. Some of them...