Views of the Ock

When this blog started it was mainly to document the local water voles (more on them in a later post), but within 12 months it became obviou...

As mentioned in the previous blog post, there are indications that Skylarks are singing (if not nesting successfully) over the fields of sou...

  Whilst this blog has been dorment, the world has moved on, and things which seemed like science fiction five years ago and now used all th...

There are many reasons why this blog fell into decline  - lack of inspiration:  there are only so many times you can write about water voles...

  Back in June, the trees were green, the grass in the meadows was long and there were  a multitude of pyramidal orchids and lots of butterf...

  On the 23 rd March 2020, in order to reduce the spread of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, the British Prime Minster  announced to the House o...

Recent studies have shown that water voles in the UK are in even more trouble than previously thought, with a decline of 30% in recent years...