Finding water voles at will.

Two weeks ago, this blog was featured In the fantastic Abingdon Blog, with Backstreeter making the comment:
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"Images [of water voles] got better and better until now the blogger seems able to find them at will".

Although not quite at will, there are at least five water vole populations on the Ock and during spring it is not too difficult to find them - the females are establishing terrorities and the bank side vegetation has yet to recover from winter:
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Now spring has become summer, what was once barren river bank is now covered in nettles, grass and unfortunately himalyan balsam. So it becomes harder to find signs of water voles:
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But  if you know where to look, it is still possible to catch a glimpse of a water vole feeding, sometimes in a willow tree:
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But you need to be quick, as they don't always stay on the branches for long.....
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