Meanwhile at Radley Brook..

Any regular readers will know that the Ock water voles are not the only ones to feature in this blog, there is another population at Radley Brook in North East Abingdon:
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It is a small ditch and suffers the same problems as the Ock - frequent flooding and possible predation by mink, but being only a few metres from the Thames these are even more likely.
But despite this there is a stable water vole population, which can be very hard to see due to the amount of Sedge:
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But with a lot of patience over many days it is possible to catch a glimpse of one of them, as they lurk amongst the sedge.
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