#water voles

[antiqueanimals]

Animals at Home. Althea. 1981.

#rodents #voles #water voles

[watford-herts-london]

Hertfordshire: Water voles thrive along River Ver after reintroduction

Water voles, a UK mammal facing extinction, are now thriving two years after being reintroduced to a Hertfordshire river. The reintroduction was made possible with funding from the Debs Foundation and Linder Foundation. In August 2021, the Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust and the Ver Valley Society released 150 water voles onto the banks of the River Ver, west of St Albans. The voles had last…

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#ecosystem #Funding #landowner #reintroduction #River #Rivers #testament #water voles

[hellsitegenetics]

As a current Ph.D. student earning a degree in marine biology and genetics, I love this blog. Thanks for being so real and so funny. I love seeing all the different organisms you churn out from random GATTACAs.

String identified: A a ct .. tt ag a g a g a gtc, t g. Ta g a a . g a t t ga c t a GATTACA.

Closest match: Arvicola amphibius genome assembly, chromosome: 14 Common name: European water vole

#tumblr genetics #genetics #rodents #asks #cassiefisherdrake #european water vole

[vintagewildlife]

Water vole By: Unknown photographer From: Dandy Gum Cards 1969

#water vole #vole #myomorph #rodent #mammal #1969 #1960s #Dandy Gum Cards

[bumblebeeappletree]

For years, Derek Gow worked his 400-acres in western England as a conventional sheep and cattle farm. But as both a farmer and conservationist, he knew that wasn’t right for nature. Now, he’s using his experience with British rewilding projects to return his land to what it once was: a healthy, biodiverse ecosystem.

He took down the fences and sold off the livestock, replacing domesticated animals with ancestral species, chosen for the way they create habitat for wild creatures, large and small.

Derek also reintroduced beavers to his land. Beavers had virtually disappeared from England, but Derek was on the forefront of reestablishing the species. Known for their ability as eco-engineers, they return the landscape to a natural, healthy state and restore water to the ecosystem. He’s also breeding a smaller cousin of the beaver that is another important eco-architect: water voles. They had also almost vanished, having lost the water features needed for their survival. His large-scale breeding program will export water voles throughout Britain to restore habitat and provide prey for raptors and other predators.

Piece by piece, Derek Gow is reassembling the puzzle that was the wild landscape of Great Britain, and restoring hope along the way.

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#nature on pbs #wild hope #solarpunk #rewilding #uk #britain #great britain #england #Derek Gow #farm land #conservationist #beaver #water vole #cattle #horse #boar #tadpole #storks #wild cats #Youtube

[birdblues]

Water Vole

#water vole #vole #Rodentia #Cricetidae #Arvicolinae #Arvicolini #Arvicola #upl

[rainstormcolors]

I just watched a PBS show featuring water voles and I love them. Look at these cuties. Credit to http://www.uk-wildlife.co.uk/photographing-water-voles/ for the photographs.

#some cuteness #water vole

[dansnaturepictures]

Seven of my favourite photos I took in July 2023 and month summary

The photos are of; Marmalade hoverfly at Egleton Nature Reserve at Rutland Water, view at Andrews Mare in the New Forest, Brown Hairstreak at Shipton Bellinger, Chalkhill Blue at Stockbridge Down, Four-spotted Chaser at Hickling Broad, water mint at Lakeside Country Park and White Storks at Knepp.

July was another fantastic wild month for me with so much seen and so many places visited, a key part of real core weeks in my wildlife year. We saw and did so much it feels as though things right at the start were more than a month ago!

It was one of my greatest ever months of butterflies. There were nine excellent species additions to my year; the dream moment when we were amazed to see a Swallowtail in Norfolk, another very successful Purple Emperor search at Knepp seeing them so well as well as Silver-washed Fritillary, White Admiral and lovely White-letter Hairstreak, always a quintessential summer moment I think seeing beautiful Chalkhill Blues at Stockbridge Down and Brown Hairstreak, Wall Brown and Silver-spotted Skipper on an extraordinary day at Shipton Bellinger and Perham Down making my butterfly year list my highest ever. Purple Hairstreak at Knepp and various times at Lakeside was another key butterfly I loved seeing this month, with Marbled White, Ringlet and Small Skipper enjoyed too. The arrival of Big Butterfly Count was something I enjoyed doing, counting the butterflies to help inform how species are doing again. This also helped uncover (although I’d have surely noticed anyway) for me that we are onto a bumper year of Red Admirals with so many around which has been fun. Gatekeeper, Meadow Brown, Small White, Green-veined White, Holly Blue, Common Blue, Comma, Peacock, Brimstone, Small Copper and Small Tortoiseshell were other of the target species enjoyed, with Brown Argus seen nicely this month too. Six-spot Burnet which I’ve also seen so many of this year and Silver Y are day flying moths in the count I’ve liked seeing this month in another good one for moths with my first ever Forester a pretty one and a Mint moth at Stockbridge Down as well as Synaphe punctalis on that pivotal insect day for me as well as Yellow Shell at Knepp, a few Bird-cherry Ermine at Rutland Water and Shipton Bellinger, Pearl Veneer at Lakeside and Pyrausta nigrata at Shipton Bellinger key ones seen.

Bird wise it was another smashing month, with a charming Ruddy Shelduck seen at Petersfield Heath Pond, an inspiring day at Knepp getting exquisite views of the monumental White Storks young and old, of course another valuable chance to see the astonishing and wondrous Bee-eaters at Trimingham on the Norfolk trip and in among all the inspiring talks and lovely interaction at the Bird Fair my first Green Sandpiper and Yellow-legged Gulls of the year at Rutland Water’s Egleton reserve during that long weekend both top birds of my year. On those two weekends away this month part of one of my best runs of weekends throughout the year with so much packed in and many big trips we like to do going to Norfolk and Rutland stunning views of majestic Marsh Harrier, exceptional views of Osprey including seeing one hunt, Hobby seen extremely well and at both gorgeous Great White Egrets so well established in those areas now were other big highlights, with Egyptian Geese enjoyed at both and the Petersfield Heath Pond visit including seeing young. Sand Martin, Common Tern, Blackcap, Linnet and Yellowhammer were other standouts this month, with the Lakeside Great Crested Grebes with both families doing well I really enjoyed seeing multiple times as well as Moorhens with young, seeing Peregrines in Winchester including the chick Rosie too. I have also really appreciated Swift and House Martin this month especially on patch, and with gull numbers going up again at Lakeside young Black-headed and also an adult Mediterranean Gull were key moments there this month.

It was also one of my best ever months for dazzling dragonflies and damselflies, with our first ever Norfolk Hawkers, Brown Hawker, Ruddy Darter and Emerald Damselfly coming into our year on the Norfolk trip, Brown Hawker enjoyed again alongside immense Southern Hawker views at Rutland Water with Common Darter, Four-spotted Chaser and locally and further afield Black-tailed Skimmer seen well this month. It was a top month of mammals with smashing views of Water Vole and Stoat at Rutland Water and Stockbridge Down on the long weekend, big mammals in what has got to be my best year of mammals with so many amazing species seen. Fallow and Muntjac Deers at Knepp and Norfolk respectively added to those brilliant times. There were lots of great moments with other insects with Black Clock beetle, Peacock butterfly caterpillar and Garden Tiger moth caterpillar at Hickling Broad, Marmalade (also seen at Lakeside) and Long Hoverfly at Egleton, Rutland Water in a strong month of hoverflies, striking and symbolic of summer Cinnabar moth caterpillars first seeing these at Knepp, so many Common Red Soldier beetles seen what a stalwart of summer, Black-and-yellow longhorn beetle something I was fixated on at Lakeside and Meadow grasshopper at Stockbridge Down with Common Field Grasshopper at Lakeside standing out with nice spider moments too.

In my plant year July felt like the very mature time in the flower year it is with some of the last flowers I expect to see blooming including hemp agrimony, water mint and red bartsia. Wild carrot, marjoram and basil, great willowherb, purple loosestrife, bird vetch, pyramidal orchid, St. John’s-wort, centaury, restharrow, scabious, mallow, scarlet pimpernel, many white clovers, rosebay willowherb, lady’s bedstraw, cuckoo-pint and agrimony have been others that stood out this month. With wetland, coast, meadow, rich grassland, lakes and woodland explored I enjoyed many breathtaking and panoramic views this month, as the weather was interestingly changeable. Have a good August all.

#photography #nature #rutland #norfolk #hampshire #wiltshire #sussex #uk #july #2023 #birdwatching #butterflies #dragonflies #mammals #water vole #wildlife #chalkhill blue #brown hairstreak #white stork #four-spotted chaser #marmalade hoverfly #new forest #andrews mare #water mint #lakeside country park #happy #outdoors #walking #reflections #summer

[neanderthalfakemon]

#019 - Beavole

#020 - Cavybara

#fakemon #pokemon #normal type #water type #muskrat #water vole #beaver #capybara

[judasisgayriot]

did some nature 🏞🌳

#rly nice day for it! #my stuff #sorry too busy touching grass etc #i like the carved water vole very friend shaped

[finchcritterart]

Commission for Katiesplat on FurAffinity! Thank you for commissioning me!

#sfw furry #fursona #commission art #sci-fi #futuristic #dystopic #cat #water vole #sketch commission #artists on tumblr #anthro art #my art

[antiqueanimals]

The Child's Picture Scrap Book. Containing Upwards of Four Hundred Illustrations by John Gilbert, J. D. Watson, Wolf, Coleman, etc. 1865.

Internet Archive

#mammals #bats #brown long-eared bats #barbastelles #eulipotyphla #moles #rodents #dormice #water voles #mustelids #otters #river otters

[skinks]

volunteering day in my favourite place

#saw peregrine falcons and palmate newts and lapwings and hawk moths and water voles and a whole herd of stags #and just so much pine marten and wildcat scat #and I made two new friends! shoutout to having enthusiastic adult friends

[nei-ning]

I went for a walk today with mom. We headed to big cemetery near by (takes about 30-40min to walk there (in one direction)). At one point, by the side of the road, was longer part where was gently running water at the bottom of the ditch.

I instantly spotted this bigger brown fur-looking thing in the water, going down with the water. It was keeping up with our walking speed easily, finally going in this small tunnel which goes under the driveway.

Before this happened, I told mom that there’s some kind of “water lemming” swimming. She didn’t know what it was either. So, when we got back, I did some googling. I found out it was vesimyyrä / Arvicola Amphibius / Water Vole!

I have never seen one! :D So seeing it was truly something! I now need to check is there online page to it, saying what could be it’s spiritual message :3

#neis life #vesimyyrä #water vole #Arvicola Amphibius #wild life #7.5.2023

[theglassdragoncollective]

The Garden House Intro

So hello. 

While we already did an extended intro for the system on main (aka The Dragon Head), our subsystem recently revealed itself as of writing this, and we sort of think it would be nice/neat to have faceclaim/picrew intro post as well. For us. 

The Garden House is a subsystem of the Glass Dragon Collective located behind Chrellys’s Haunted Castle in the Underworld part of the innerworld. So we’re in a little greenhouse/shed thing in MONARCH’s garden we call “the Garden House.” 

Which is the name of the subsystem.

Anyway, we’re all various animals, with more of less animal-like forms. Typically we have a fully animal form and then a more humanoid-esque form (it helps us feel a little more comfortable in the body). For this post, we’ll just include our main forms, with the possibility of both in our specific intro posts if they exist. Image descriptions will be given for accessibility purposes. 

The Garden House

Pickett (He/Him)

Pickett is a porcupine and MONARCH’s assistant in helping keep the subsystem in order. Considered the primary guardian and a bit of a bridge to the rest of the system. He has a highly protective role and usually is in the background, with a hard time directly fronting. However we know he is always looking out for us, and we find him greatly comforting. Longtime partners with Maury.

[Image description: Closeup picture of a porcupine nestled in the crook of a tree, fur warm and taking on brownish hues in the sun. End ID]

Maury (He/Him)

Maury is a wombat and Pickett’s longtime partner (the nature of their exact relationship being somewhat ambiguous). Maury doesn’t really like fronting that much, he’s a simple guy who enjoys his simple life in the Garden House, but he’ll enjoy a good cup of coffee when he does and we love him for it. 

[Image description: Closeup picture of a wombat caught midwalk on pavement, soft grey fur just in reach. End ID]

Jack (He/Him)

Jack is possum and the self-proclaimed “king of trash” ruling over the harsher part of the subsystem that isn’t exactly sunshine and daises. He loves a good bit of mischief and runs with a “devil-may-care/did-i-ask” attitude, but is nonetheless super caring and really good at helping other people do what they need up front, particularly with his boyfriend, Onion. Didn’t have many opportunities before system discovery, but really enjoys fronting and hopes to make a life now that he has the chance.

[Image description: Picture of a possum running through a carpeted house with a miniature pumpkin in his jaws. End ID]

Onion (He/They) 

Onion is a small white mouse who loves nothing more than snuggling up with his boyfriend, Jack, to watch a bit of horror and/or anime while enjoying a spot of cream cheese. Onion is small and has some of the most obvious perception shifts while fronting (everything feels much bigger) but nevertheless loves the idea of adventure and exploring the world. 

[Image description: Picture of a white mouse standing up on their hind paws as they hold up a tiny teddy bear. End ID]

Mushroom (She/He/They)

Mushroom is Onion’s goth sister. She’s channels a really intense energy when she fronts due to time spent in the Smallest Kingdom, another subsystem of ours. Is sapphic.

[Image description: Picture of white mouse chilling with her eyes closed as she sits in a tiny mouse sized porcelain tub. End ID]

Luce (She/They)

Luce is a grey mouse who enjoys having nice things and meeting people in and out of system. She’s a bubble of energy and sunlight and loves crickets and all things Crickett (they are girlfriends, happy pride). Her favorite colors are deep purple and emerald green.

[Image description: Stock photo of a grey and white mouse staring endearingly up at the camera. End ID]

Crickett (Any basic ones)

Crickett is an agender praying mantis who loves spending time chilling with her girlfriend, Luce. He’s a very lowkey emo but also loves some solid pops of color like the fresh green with pops of orange red associated with praying mantises. Like Luce, she has a more humanoid form, although her favorite activity to do in the body is probably sleeping.

[Image description: A stock photo of a praying mantis perched atop a large leaf looking into the camera. End ID]

Ghastley (He/They)

Ghastley is a european water vole somewhere in his fifties who guards over a wheat field in our subsystem known as “Staverwarsh.” His accent is distinct because he talks completely out of the left side of our mouth. He loves sunflowers and talking to nature spirits down by the river.

[Image Description: Picture of a european water vole perched atop a mossy rock just sticking out of shallow water, with a twig from some kind of evergreen in his paws, going up under him to almost giving the illusion of a leaf boat, the bottom part of his fur is just damp. End ID]

Maurnie (She/Her)

Maurnie is a raccoon who loves burgundy red and little red riding hood. She lives in a trashcan innerworld and loves spending time playing cards and lounging about with Onion and Jack. We don’t know much more since she can’t really front without panicking, but we’re working on making things more comfortable if she decides she wants to and we love her all the same! 

[Image description: Picture of a raccoon sitting upright in public transit, paws in a jar of Jif peanut butter. End ID]

Morris Morrisey (He/They)

Morris is a slug and distinguished older gentleman of the Garden House community, probably identifying around 50/60 human age, long settled with his long-time partner, Norton, after meeting in college (we have no idea where they went to college). Prefers to see taking the front as akin to an amusement park ride and enjoys the experience of seeing the world from the perspective of a human and slug alike. 

[Image Description: Picture of a brown slug perched atop a single blade of grass, looking towards the camera. End ID]

Norton (He/Him)

Norton is a snail and a similarly distinguished elder in the Garden House community to his partner, Morris, although known for always being energetic and ready for an adventure. He can often give our younger members a run for their money, though is still willing to dispense wisdom. Is a very welcoming person and did not hesitate to offer Milk food and shelter when he first wandered dazed into their home by accident. 

[Image description: Picture of a snail with a small yellow flower placed atop their head. End ID]

Milk (He/Him/!!/!!!/??/???/[-]/[()])

Milk is Norton and Morris’s adopted ant son and one of the younger members of the Garden House. Milk was adopted after [-] was separated from [()] colony while being chased by some animals unique to our innerworld and ended up accidentally wandering into the Garden House. Milk describes himself as “a panic ant” due to [()] tendency to panic and general fear of the world. We’re doing our best to make !!! feel welcome and safe with us though.

[Image Description: Picture of an ant, antennae raised alongside with his front legs atop the edge of a white mushroom. End ID]

Avril (He/Him/Bzz/Bzzt/or other bee related neos)

Avril is a bee from the Garden House. Technically, he’s on the younger side of our system alongside Hunter and Prince (not syskid just younger than the body), but gets called “grandpa” and “old man” due to certain aspects of bzzt’s disposition (by Morris and Norton anyway), does a fair amount of jobs for them as bzz does maintenance in the Garden House.

[Image Description: Closeup picture of a very fuzzy bee atop a single blade of grass with several legs off, almost waving. End ID]

Kgder (He/Her?)

Kgder is a young alligator known for her mismashed british/icelandic accent. He is generally thought to be small, though it is unclear what her exact age is. Relates to lizards/reptiles generally. Likes Florida related alligator memes. Will always take guesses to how her name is pronounced. 

[Image Description: Picture of a caiman on a log with a bunch of colorful butterflies on their head and snout. End ID]

Fred Crowe (He/They)

Fred Crowe is Idan’s messenger raven, carrying Idan’s messages throughout different parts of the system. He has the second worst posture after Agony (probably a raven thing) and has a general emo aesthetic. His favorite activity is hanging out on people’s arms, shoulders, backs, particularly for his best friend Chris.

[Image description: Stock photo of a raven perched on a dead branch. End ID]

Chris (He/Her exactly as stated)

Chris is a deer centaur, emphasis on centaur. Possibly was a regular deer at some point, but because the Garden House interacts a lot in other parts of the system sometimes forms evolve, so Chris is solidly a centaur from her time in the Everwood. Fred is her good mate and favorite idiot, and her favorite color is azure blue.

Picture is just a regular deer to not break emersion, Chris does have the upper-half of a human though.

[Image Description: Picture of deer with a white speckled coat and antlers, their head reared back as they look up at the branches of an evergreen. End ID]

Thanks for reading, feel welcome to say hi or ask questions (as long as you’re nice we love talking about ourselves :) 

- the Garden House signing off!

#intro post #the garden house subsystem #the garden house #faceclaims #mice #racoon #possum #porcupine #wombat #praying mantis #slug #snail #insects #raven #animals #food #ant #bee #european water vole #vole #alligator

[deadraccoonphotos]

British wildlife centre UK

#British wildlife centre UK #British wildlife centre #photography #portfolio #photographyuk #uk #water vole