Saturday 17 March 2012

The resilience of water voles

Two weeks ago, Radley Brook had burst it's banks and the Thames path was flooded and impassable
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Now the water level has subsided and the weather has been so dry that the path is now passable again:
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So it is an opportunity to try and find if any water voles are still there and have survived the recent flooding.  In the bank, it looks like there might be a burrow:
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And in-between the sedge, a collection of small cut grass stems, a definite sign of water vole feeding.
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It seems, despite the weather, the water voles of Radley Brook are still resilient - for the time being -  to the  many hardships  that water voles suffer.

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