Saw A Water Vole Today

[tsteve9999 456]

First one I've seen on the local canal for 10 years or so.

Is it just my area or have they dissapeared all over? When I was a kid you'd see or hear one in the rushes every few yards, yet now the canals are clean there are none. I know mink have been blamed but to be honest we don't have many round here so I don't think they are the cause.

[cragman 2,843]

Got some near where I work, but I'm bang at it keeping an eye out for the mink most of the time

[paulus 26]

First one I've seen on the local canal for 10 years or so.

Is it just my area or have they dissapeared all over? When I was a kid you'd see or hear one in the rushes every few yards, yet now the canals are clean there are none. I know mink have been blamed but to be honest we don't have many round here so I don't think they are the cause.

there decline here was due to work carried out in the `s to stop the toe path banks from eroding by the use of metal stanctioning. this stopped the voles from having the underwater entrance they require

[scothunter 12,609]

Not seen one since for about 20 year.

 

Used to see them down the burn and canal when I was a kid.

 

Used to shoot em with an air rifle. Didn't know any better thought they were rats lol

[paulus 26]

Not seen one since for about 20 year.

 

Used to see them down the burn and canal when I was a kid.

 

Used to shoot em with an air rifle. Didn't know any better thought they were rats lol

we hunted the "water rats" with both guns and dogs all through my childhood

[scothunter 12,609]

Aye that's what we calked them water rats lol

[johnny boy68 11,726]

We've got voles and mink here, seem to have got a balance here for now.

[RossM 8,149]

We've got voles and mink here, seem to have got a balance here for now.

The weight of 2 water voles and a mink = 1x johnnyboy?

[The one 8,594]

Think a few folk see them and think there rats

[South hams hunter 8,996]

There's a few spots I know for them down here. Only place I've ever seen em though

[tsteve9999 456]

 

Not seen one since for about 20 year.

 

Used to see them down the burn and canal when I was a kid.

 

Used to shoot em with an air rifle. Didn't know any better thought they were rats lol

we hunted the "water rats" with both guns and dogs all through my childhood

 

Me too, and every kid I knew, and it never made a difference to the population. It's strange how things change over the years, I see kingfishers occasionally nowadays, but there are hardly any sticklebacks in our canals.

[CBdogsA1 420]

There was a spot on countryfile on sunday showing a place where they are re-introducing them in England. Few hundred if I remember correctly at a mink free place.

[johnny boy68 11,726]

There was a spot on countryfile on sunday showing a place where they are re-introducing them in England. Few hundred if I remember correctly at a mink free place.

They've also got a release program going on at the Gwent Levels down the road from me.