Tales of the Riverbank

The top photo gives a view of the paler pelage, which is useful for voles hiding from underwater predators like p...

One of the ways you can tell a young water vole is by its huge feet.

Some of these shots show off the rounded shape of a vole, and the tidy, tucked-away ears.

One of the ways you can tell juvenile water voles from fully grown adults (and also from bank voles and field voles) is that young w...

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 Common lizard  Common toads  Green hairstreak  Sundews I'm now seeing two or possibly thre...