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Water vole tumulus
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Glasgow - Easterhouse
A water vole tumulus - like a mole hill, but made by a fossorial water vole (Arvicola amphibius or Arvicola terrestris) - a field sign of water voles taken on a survey workshop in Cranhill Park in Easterhouse, Glasgow, where fossorial water voles live. These rodents plug some of their burrow entrances with a mixture of mud and vegetation to help maintain heat in their burrows through winter.
17 September 2014
Water vole feeding site
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Glasgow - Hogganfield Loch
Water vole feeding site with chewed grass stems - a field sign of water voles (Arvicola amphibius or Arvicola terrestris) taken on a survey workshop in Cranhill Park, Glasgow, where fossorial water voles live.
17 September 2014
Grasses used to block water vole burrow
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Glasgow - Easterhouse
Grasses used to block water vole burrow - a field sign of water voles (Arvicola amphibius or Arvicola terrestris) taken on a survey workshop in a park in Easterhouse, Glasgow, where fossorial water voles live.
17 September 2014
Bank vole, RSPB Lochwinnoch
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Renfrewshire - Lochwinnoch
Bank vole (Clethrionomys glareolus), RSPB Lochwinnoch , taken by David Palmar
12 December 2021
Female Water Vole, Glasgow
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Glasgow - Easterhouse
Black female Water Vole (Arvicola terrestris), taken by Rebecca Dickson in Glasgow. Here, this female is about to be weighed using a Pringles tube before being put safely back into a holding cage, prior to release as part of a translocation project. "Fossorial" water voles (which live in terrestrial habitat away from water) can be either brown or black in colour.
26 September 2020
Male Water vole in release cage, Glasgow
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Glasgow - Easterhouse
Brown male Water Vole (Arvicola terrestris), during a translocation project in Glasgow, to save them from being threatened by development. The cage seen here is called a "soft-release cage"; they have no bottom so the voles are encouraged to dig their way out. During this project, hand-trowels were used to dig a small starting tunnel which greatly reduced the time it took for them to burrow away into their new habitat. Picture taken by Rebecca Dickson.
16 September 2020
Male Water Vole, Glasgow
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Glasgow - Easterhouse
Brown male Water Vole (Arvicola terrestris), taken by Rebecca Dickson in Glasgow. This photo was taken during a trapping and translocation project where the voles were moved to safer, suitable habitat. After being trapped, the voles were then transferred into buckets to allow information such as sex and weight to be recorded.
16 September 2020
Water Vole swimming in the River Windrush, Witney, Oxfordshire
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Oxfordshire and Berkshire
Water Vole (Arvicola terrestris) swimming in its riverine habitat along the River Windrush in Witney Lake and Country Park, Oxfordshire
31 July 2010
Water Vole in vegetated habitat, Witney, Oxfordshire
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Oxfordshire and Berkshire
Water Vole (Arvicola terrestris) coming out of a burrow and entering its vegetated riverine habitat along the River Windrush in Witney Lake and Country Park, Oxfordshire
29 July 2010
Water Vole in riverbank habitat, Witney, Oxfordshire
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Oxfordshire and Berkshire
Water Vole (Arvicola terrestris) in its riverbank habitat along the River Windrush in Witney Lake and Country Park, Oxfordshire, showing nesting burrows - many entrances to one burrow, so that they can escape if necessary, especially from predatory Mink which are small enough to fit into a Water Vole burrow, and which have decimated their population.
