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Water vole feeding site
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Glasgow - Hogganfield Loch
Water vole feeding site with chewed grass stems - a field sign of water voles (Arvicola amphibius or Arvicola terrestris) taken on a survey workshop in Cranhill Park, Glasgow, where fossorial water voles live.
17 September 2014
Water vole feeding site
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Glasgow - Hogganfield Loch
Water vole (Arvicola amphibius or Arvicola terrestris) feeding site with chewed grass stems - a field sign of water voles taken on a survey workshop in Cranhill Park, Glasgow, where fossorial water voles live.
17 September 2014
Water vole droppings in a small latrine
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Glasgow - Easterhouse
Water vole droppings in a small latrine - a field sign of water voles (Arvicola amphibius or Arvicola terrestris) taken on a survey workshop in Cranhill Park, Glasgow, where fossorial water voles live.
17 September 2014
Water vole burrow blocked with plug of grasses
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Glasgow - Easterhouse
Water vole burrow blocked with plug of grasses - a field sign of water voles (Arvicola amphibius or Arvicola terrestris) taken on a survey workshop in a park in Easterhouse, Glasgow, where fossorial water voles live. These rodents plug some of their burrow entrances with a mixture of mud and vegetation to help maintain heat in their burrows through winter.
17 September 2014
Water vole tumulus
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Glasgow - Easterhouse
A water vole tumulus - like a mole hill, but made by a fossorial water vole (Arvicola amphibius or Arvicola terrestris) - a field sign of water voles taken on a survey workshop in Cranhill Park in Easterhouse, Glasgow, where fossorial water voles live. These rodents plug some of their burrow entrances with a mixture of mud and vegetation to help maintain heat in their burrows through winter.
17 September 2014
Water Vole, Glasgow
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Glasgow - Easterhouse
Water Vole (Arvicola amphibius or Arvicola terrestris), Glasgow. Water voles in eastern Glasgow are terrestrial, or fossorial as they are called, instead of living near water. They have a mixture of black and brown coats.
28 March 2018
Water Vole, Glasgow
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Glasgow - Easterhouse
Water Vole (Arvicola amphibius or Arvicola terrestris), Glasgow. Water voles in eastern Glasgow are terrestrial, or fossorial as they are called, instead of living near water. They have a mixture of black and brown coats.
28 March 2018
Cairngorm Mountain skiing area from Loch Morlich
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Cairngorms National Park in winter
Cairngorm Mountain skiing area from Loch Morlich
12 January 2008
Common gull (Larus canus), Drumpellier Country Park
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Seven Lochs and Moodiesburn
Common gull (Larus canus) at Drumpellier Loch, taken by Rebecca Dickson. Second-cycle birds are hard to differentiate from adults however, adult birds have larger white spots on the outermost primaries (see zoomed-in section above).
19 February 2022
Tufted Duck, Drumpellier Country Park
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Seven Lochs and Moodiesburn
Drake tufted duck (Aythya fuligula) in Drumpellier Country Park, taken by Rebecca Dickson. The scientific name of the tufted duck fuligula means "sooty throat"!