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Views of the Ock: Top Ten Tips for watching water voles:
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Views of the Ock. Wildlife and other things of interest on and around the river Ock in south Oxfordshire. Thursday, 7 May 2015. Top Ten Tips for watching water voles:. In a comment to a previous post, Becky asked the following question:. Any tips for the best time of day to look for water voles. Perhaps the most important thing for spotting water voles is to identify is suitable place where they may live. Along the river bank, long grasses provide an additional source of food and bedding as well as cover...
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Views of the Ock: January 2014
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Views of the Ock. Wildlife and other things of interest on and around the river Ock in south Oxfordshire. Saturday, 25 January 2014. It's now been two weeks since the flood waters have receded and what were once swollen banks and flooded fields:. Are now large puddles and the normal exposed high banks:. The floods can be mixed for the local wildlife. Very young otters (under a month) can drown as they would still be in a holt and unable to swim. Saturday, 11 January 2014. The heavy rain that fell over Ch...
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Views of the Ock: Sophie the Stegosaurus
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Views of the Ock. Wildlife and other things of interest on and around the river Ock in south Oxfordshire. Saturday, 16 May 2015. The Natural History Museum in London is famous for it's dinosaurs, yet it's most iconic, Dippy the Diplodocus in the entrance hall is actually one of ten plaster casts of a dinosaur in Pennsylvani. A and it now has a rival - Sophie the. And it makes a mesmerising display in the Earth Hall when entering via Exhibition Road. Sophie is a Stegasarus stenops. 30 June 2015 at 21:01.
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Views of the Ock: Spring 2015
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Views of the Ock. Wildlife and other things of interest on and around the river Ock in south Oxfordshire. Sunday, 19 April 2015. After what seemed like a never ending winter, spring arrived a couple of weeks ago and along with that, the river and the surrounding area have returned to life. The most obvious sign of the spring is the huge sway of blackthorn blossom along the hedgerows, especially along the old canal, where unlike most of the hedgerows in the area, they are not cut. 27 April 2015 at 13:56.
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Views of the Ock: May 2015
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Views of the Ock. Wildlife and other things of interest on and around the river Ock in south Oxfordshire. Thursday, 21 May 2015. It is very challenging for an aquatic bird to raise young on the Ock. In the water they face threats from otters, mink and pike, i. F they stray onto land they face predation from stoats, foxes and uncontrolled pet dogs and from the air there is the permanent threat of kestrels and buzzards. Yet despite these risks, a pair of swans have managed to raise three young cygnets.
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Views of the Ock: November 2013
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Views of the Ock. Wildlife and other things of interest on and around the river Ock in south Oxfordshire. Tuesday, 12 November 2013. As autumn slowly turns to winter, there is very little to see on the Ock - most of the surviving water voles (if any) now spend most of their time in their borrows, the adult insects have died and leaving their young to overwinter as eggs, nymphs or lava and the summer migrants - (warblers, swallows and hobbies) have returned to Africa. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). By Piter ...
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Views of the Ock: May 2014
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Views of the Ock. Wildlife and other things of interest on and around the river Ock in south Oxfordshire. Thursday, 29 May 2014. Making the most of the respite from the recent rain, the garden has proved popular with the bees. Building upon the success of previous solitary bee boxes ( http:/ viewsoftheock.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/return-of-mason-bees.html. Two new simple constructions (blocks of wood 5 x 8 cm deep with 8mm diameter drilled holes) are now providing over 100 new nest sites. The bumblebee con...
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Views of the Ock: April 2015
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Views of the Ock. Wildlife and other things of interest on and around the river Ock in south Oxfordshire. Saturday, 25 April 2015. A Bless of water voles? The concept for collective nouns originated back in the 15th century in the Book of Saint Albans and some of them - a pride of lions, a shoal of fish and a pod of dolphins - have made it into regular use. I prefer 'a bless of water voles' as this is the word quite often said when someone sees one of these small, endearing, yet endangered mammals. Anoth...
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Views of the Ock: December 2014
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Views of the Ock. Wildlife and other things of interest on and around the river Ock in south Oxfordshire. Monday, 29 December 2014. There is only so much that can be written about water voles, otter poo and the occasional fungus, hence only 15 posts in the past year and the last one was over 2 months ago, s. O maybe the blog has run it's course. If it has then perhaps one final post should include some of the subjects which, for whatever reason, never made into the blog:. The Sloth of Berkshire:. But the...
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