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About a Brook: Some Nice Shots to Share
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The diary of a water vole colony. Friday, 17 July 2015. Some Nice Shots to Share. Labels: field off Edgeley Road. Fabulous photos Kate, nicely captured. I didnt get to vole watch during my 30 Days Wild Challenge but Im not giving up and hope to go out vole watching sometime soon. 20 July 2015 at 04:48. They were flitting to and fro between the trees and yaffling a fair bit, though the young ones didnt seem to have quite got the hang of that yet. 22 July 2015 at 10:49. There are occasional instances of wa...
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About a Brook: Ragwort and Water Voles
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The diary of a water vole colony. Saturday, 25 July 2015. Ragwort and Water Voles. What looks like a vole-cut to me, and the plant was right next to a burrow and a feeding station. Field off Edgeley Road. Super photos Kate. I thought about your blog the other day whilst visiting Brockholes near Preston. I was in a craft shop near the visitor centre when I saw a bottle of brown ale called Water Vole (http:/ fromthenotebook.co.uk/index.php/component/k2/water-vole). 26 July 2015 at 08:24. Oh, top notch!
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About a Brook: July 2015
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The diary of a water vole colony. Friday, 31 July 2015. Labels: field off Edgeley Road. Saturday, 25 July 2015. Ragwort and Water Voles. What looks like a vole-cut to me, and the plant was right next to a burrow and a feeding station. Field off Edgeley Road. Friday, 17 July 2015. Some Nice Shots to Share. Labels: field off Edgeley Road. Thursday, 16 July 2015. Which leads me to another question: when do water shrews ever sleep? Labels: field off Edgeley Road. Monday, 13 July 2015. Amphibians at Brown Moss.
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About a Brook: February 2015
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The diary of a water vole colony. Sunday, 15 February 2015. Family of field mice at Black Park Road. Below, the back end of a field vole showing the shortness of the tail. These burrows are in the right place for water vole, but they're too small. They're made by field voles, probably. Sunday, 8 February 2015. Lapwings in the field. Water vole paw prints in the mud at Broughall. Sunday, 1 February 2015. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Field off Edgeley Road. Railway bridge by Homebase. Wildlife Kate (not me!
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About a Brook: November 2014
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The diary of a water vole colony. Thursday, 27 November 2014. Water voles don't truly hibernate, but this blog sort of does. While the voles are underground and feeding on roots and snoozing, I don't post much. But Radio 4 Extra are re-running Tom Moorhouse's wonderful fiction book, 'The River Singers', and as part of that feature there's an interview with me and my voles at 2 minutes 30 seconds in. Http:/ www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04pm6fd. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Field off Edgeley Road. Out and Abou...
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About a Brook: Why is a Vole like a Squid?
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The diary of a water vole colony. Wednesday, 12 August 2015. Why is a Vole like a Squid? The cloud of sediment that sometimes tells you you've just missed a water vole. Juvenile common newts, found under an abandoned suitcase on a brownfield site (Mile Bank). OK, water voles don't produce their own ink cloud, but they do rely on a cloud of sediment they kick up to escape from predators. Field off Edgeley Road. Nice collection of photos Kate. 12 August 2015 at 06:37. 12 August 2015 at 06:50. Terry Whittak...
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About a Brook: July 2014
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The diary of a water vole colony. Wednesday, 23 July 2014. Here's the only half-decent footage I've managed to capture of a water shrew. Blink and you'll miss it. The hedgehog clip is a poser, as it turns out I've mis-labelled what's going on. What I thought was the small hog's mother was in fact attempting to mount the little hog, so I can only assume this is a very small or juvenile sow being courted by a large adult boar. How old is she? How old do females have to be to start breeding? This blog chart...
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