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Wildlife and countryside act 1981. Water voles have unusually large hind feet ranging between 25 and 34 mm in length which can help distinguish the water vole from other similar rodents and contribute to its speed in the water. It inhabits the banks of rivers ponds and canals but in other parts of the world it is less aquatic and lives mainly on pasture land. It is also an offence to disturb kill or injure a water vole or handle a water vole without a licence.
Amazing facts about the water vole european the shy secretive water vole is the largest vole in the british isles. Males tend to be larger than females. Water vole climbing in willow trees. Water voles have rounder noses than rats deep brown fur chubby faces and short fuzzy ears.
Download hd wallpapers of 766729 water vole water vole branch hawthorn flowering flowers water. As i pass beck brook at one of its widest spots a full four feet across there are a couple of sploshes loud in the dawn and a v shaped wavelet ripples the channel between blooms of pondweed the bow wave of a water vole ever elusive. Return to the river like us all a water vole needs throughout its year is enough food security and habitat to start a new family. Unlike rats their tails paws and ears are covered with hair.
Sometimes all we are offered is a glimpse or a trace of vole or sparrowhawk or the divine. The holes are typically wider than they are high with a diameter of 4 8cm. Offences carry a maximum penalty of 5000. It can grow well in partial shade as well as under full sun.
It is often informally called the water rat though it only superficially resembles a true rat. To enable this they depend on our compassion by not cutting the banks to groundlevel or removing native plants or cover through gardening the banks and leaving.