It would be lovely to have them back on the canals & rivers & streams, there used to be loads when I was a kid though they were called water rats in my day, which didn't help them and now that Mink are on the uprise again I can't see it happening but fingers crossed for them.
Mink are the main suspects in the demise of the Water Vole. What are the authorities doing to eradicate it?
Otters are said to oust Mink, but they live at such low densities (one source tells me one Otter per 6 miles of waterway) that other measures seem essential.
If anyone would like to start to start regular monitoring of a certain stretch of water, lets try together to cover the whole of the Calder Valley in Calderdale. Some observers already cover the upper valley.
It would be lovely to have them back on the canals & rivers & streams, there used to be loads when I was a
ReplyDeletekid though they were called water rats in my day, which didn't help them and now that Mink are on the uprise again I can't see it happening but fingers crossed for them.
Mink are the main suspects in the demise of the Water Vole. What are the authorities doing to eradicate it?
ReplyDeleteOtters are said to oust Mink, but they live at such low densities (one source tells me one Otter per 6 miles of waterway) that other measures seem essential.
If anyone would like to start to start regular monitoring of a certain stretch of water, lets try together to cover the whole of the Calder Valley in Calderdale. Some observers already cover the upper valley.