Tales of the Riverbank

Very pleased to read this nice letter in BBC Wildlife Magazine about my water vole article in November's issue. Also delighte...

There's a lovely feature in this gorgeous environmental magazine based on Hugh Wawick's book, The Beauty in the Beast. The piec...

Photo of a diving vole from 2011 I was on the main town car park by Tesco when I glanced into the Staggsbrook and saw a chunky rodent...

What we have here is pretty much the full set of main field signs for water voles: feeding, prints, active burrows and droppings...

A peep under the bridge at White Lion Meadow (the main town car park by Tesco) reveals a lot of rodent activity under the bridge. T...

We're in the dead zone now as regards vole-watching. I don't expect to see much in the way of field signs till February, and no actu...

Common shrew jawbones. The enamel at the very tips of the teeth is red. Badger hair: white at the tip, ridged when you roll it be...