Thursday, 15 April 2010

More water voles

I haven't seen any water voles since my intial sightings in mid march. With the heavy rain a few weeks ago I was concerned that the resultant high water may have resulted in borrows flooding and the water voles drowning. Especially as I had more sightings this time last year.
However, a couple of walks along the river produced four new sightings
Again, not great quality pictures:




These sightings show the colony is once again establishing itself, as seen on the 2010 water vole map. These new sightings are in green - with March's sightings in blue





View Water voles 2010 in a larger map
So there should be plenty of opportunities for better quality photos and perhaps now is the chance to explore further afield.

2 comments:

  1. Aw, great! Was that four separate voles?

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  2. Indeed there were four separate voles, all seen within about 10 minutes.
    The first two sightings were pretty much at the same time

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