Tales of the Riverbank

I can't decide which is lovelier, the open crocuses or the establishing of a proper water vole latrine on the sandbank where I found t...

Burrow about the diameter of a Pringles tube. A vole from last year. Diagonal-cut thick chunky plants are a reasonable indicator of wa...

Suspect these snails have been eaten by voles. Field vole latrine Field vole burrow - with close-cropped lawn around the entrance!  I t...

 Whose prints?  Whose burrow?  Whose feeding? Took a walk down to the fields on either side of the railway track to see if anything was ...

Field vole. Bank vole - slightly browner coat, slightly longer tail. Wood mouse. A closed trap usually means there's so...

zicrona caerulea Candlesnuff fungus Shaggy parasol Field vole feeding and droppings. Spraint is in the middle of the photo. As is often the ...

Crested Coral Armillaria (mellea) Two clumps of Amethyst Deceiver. Beautiful autumn colours and shapes in a beech wood near Heptonstall, Yor...