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tales of the riverbank skip to main skip to sidebar tales of the riverbank the diary of a water vole colony wednesday 10 june 2026 june 8th posted by kate at 08 54 no comments labels field off edgeley road sighting sunday 7 june 2026 june 6th an anxious wait for the planning committee to pronounce we are waiting anxiously to see if this field will be built on and the water vole colony destroyed posted by kate at 09 46 no comments labels field off edgeley road sighting sunday 24 may 2026 a little bit of activity at white lion meadow i ve only had one actual sighting here this year but this latrine under the bridge shows there is a population of water voles on the site bigger latrine in the field off edgeley road below a latrine right outside a burrow sometimes it can be hard to spot droppings against mud look for the presence of flies here s the little youngster with the spot on its head it s now getting the lighter milk chocolate coat of an adult posted by kate at 07 04 no comments labels burrow field off edgeley road latrine sighting white lion meadow car park near tesco thursday 21 may 2026 some videos posted by kate at 06 57 no comments feeding stations can be subtle you have to look carefully for some feeding signs posted by kate at 06 49 no comments labels feeding feeding station field off edgeley road sighting monday 18 may 2026 little one posted by kate at 02 36 no comments labels field off edgeley road sighting saturday 16 may 2026 spotty voles again i ve logged voles with white forehead spots several times on this blog across several different locations e g spotty voles i don t know what causes it though several youngsters together with the same mark suggests it s genetic it might also suggest how much water voles travel between different sites keeping the populations healthy and preventing inbreeding the photos above show two different youngsters plus an adult and only one of the juveniles has a spot i don t know if any of them are related posted by kate at 03 45 no comments labels field off edgeley road sighting newer posts older posts home subscribe to posts atom labels adder 4 ash 1 bank vole 7 barn owl 3 bat 1 belton farm 1 bettisfield 1 black park road 31 blue green algae 2 brick kiln farm 5 broughall 12 brown moss 5 burrow 111 burrows 2 chester zoo 4 colemere 2 coton 1 council 37 criftins 1 ditch near grocontinental 45 ditch near lidl 2 dormice 1 dragonfly 6 edward german drive 73 ellesmere 2 environment agency 31 feeding 148 feeding station 84 field off edgeley road 469 field vole 45 fordhall farm 2 gardening 3 grange farm ash 2 greenfields rise 1 griffiths tool hire 3 grocontinental 2 habitat 2 hares 9 harvest mouse 4 hedgehog 31 kit 4 latrine 299 lawn 1 lizard 21 llangollen canal 3 mating 3 mile bank road 7 mink 8 mole 1 moths 2 mouse 5 nantwich 3 nest 2 newt 14 norfolk 2 otter 46 plate 3 polecat 4 pollution 3 predator 51 prees branch canal 35 prees heath 18 prints 102 quoisley bridge 3 raft 25 railway bridge by homebase 42 rat 51 red squirrels 1 run 1 saddlers walk 23 shropshire wildlife trust 4 sighting 752 skull 2 snake 5 sparrowhawk 1 steel heath 6 stoat 9 timber yard 63 toad 5 trackway 5 vole spoon 4 water level 11 water shrew 15 wayland road 9 waymills 6 weasel 7 wem moss 2 whitchurch country park 64 white lion meadow car park near tesco 430 whitwater hickory hollow 3 whixall 6 whixall moss 22 wood mouse 4 wybunbury moss 5 yockings gate 18 about this blog this blog charts the fortunes of water voles in and around the whitchurch area north shropshire water voles are one of the uk s most threatened mammals extinct in many counties and so it s vital they receive as much monitoring and protection as there is going here in whitchurch we re lucky enough to have them right in the middle of town how cool is that links wood lane nature reserve at ellesemere wildlife kate not me whitchurch water vole group views of the ock another water vole blog terry whittaker s wonderful vole photos shropshire cc countryside information richard steel s wildlife photographs out and about nature blog jo cartmell s shiny new water vole info site gilly otter s lovely blog derek gow water vole expert countryside tales contact the environment agency about river pollution here careering through nature beautiful french wildlife blog arkive short video clips and photos of water voles blog archive 2026 14 june 2 june 8th june 6th an anxious wait for the planning commit may 6 april 5 march 1 2025 38 september 1 august 6 july 5 june 11 may 7 april 5 march 1 february 1 january 1 2024 41 october 1 september 5 august 4 july 3 june 9 may 11 april 5 march 2 february 1 2023 42 december 2 november 1 october 4 september 2 august 5 july 5 june 6 may 6 april 6 march 3 february 2 2022 49 november 1 october 1 september 4 august 11 july 5 june 10 may 5 april 4 march 6 february 1 january 1 2021 62 november 1 october 3 september 6 august 7 july 12 june 11 may 10 april 5 march 5 february 2 2020 53 november 1 september 2 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