rats and water voles

[fish 148]

the difference between a water vole and a rat for those that don't know.the vole is on the left.you must let the vole go.

[Steve Albano 21]

Fish, do the water voles tunnel and create mounds of dirt?

 

Why can't you kill the water voles in France? I understand that in England they are endangered, but I thought they were common, and a significant pest on the continent.

[miller 18]

Animal rights doo gooders let mink out of fur farms and the mink in turn kill our native species IE vole king fisher etc so the numbers fell dramatically.

Fish, do the water voles tunnel and create mounds of dirt?

 

Why can't you kill the water voles in France? I understand that in England they are endangered, but I thought they were common, and a significant pest on the continent.

Edited November 18, 2010 by miller

[lamaha 7]

Great Post Fish.

Not often you get to see the two live together for id purposes.

Classic features of nose shape and distinct, or otherwise, ears.

Cheers.

[fish 148]

Fish, do the water voles tunnel and create mounds of dirt?

 

Why can't you kill the water voles in France? I understand that in England they are endangered, but I thought they were common, and a significant pest on the continent.

hello steve.

I'm trapping coypu they do much more damage and carry some nasty diseases.the voles and rats get in the traps set for the coypu.

[iseremarc 11]

Fish, do the water voles tunnel and create mounds of dirt?

 

Why can't you kill the water voles in France? I understand that in England they are endangered, but I thought they were common, and a significant pest on the continent.

 

Steve, you can kill water voles in France, they are classed as animals " sans statut juridique" ( of no judicial status), as are rats and moles, and can be trapped, controlled etc.

 

They certainly do tunnel and create mounds of dirt. Some infested fields round here look like the Somme, huge problem for farmers when population explosions occur.

[Steve Albano 21]

Thank you Iseremark, just what I wanted to know. Merci Beaucoup.

[comanche 3,041]

I spent an afternoon with the grand-children at the Wetlands Trust's Arundel site recently .As it was raining and there were few visitors we had a lengthy boat ride about the place and the guide spent a lot of time talking about the reintroduction of water voles to the site . The place operates vigerous mink exclusion and the voles have done so well that they have been thinned out and the spare ones released at sites on the nearby River Arun where they are doing really well . I was amazed at the way they grazed the reed beds . It looked like someone had taken a strimmer to them in places .