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16-06-2009, 03:46 PM
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| |  Water Voles on Blue Peter!
It's on now as I type, Tuesday 16th June, but I bet you can access it through the BBC's iplayer service. They looked briefly at a water vole farm (Derek Gow's?) and then locating them to a mink-free reserve in Scotland. The presenter stressed the importance of saving water voles and urged viewers to write in if they spotted any. Great stuff! |
17-06-2009, 07:06 AM
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| | | Re: Water Voles on Blue Peter!
BBC iPlayer - Blue Peter: 16/06/2009
There's a direct link. 2 mins 45 seconds in. |
17-06-2009, 07:18 AM
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| | | Re: Water Voles on Blue Peter!
Cheers for the link, I will watch it now. 
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17-06-2009, 07:21 AM
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| | | Re: Water Voles on Blue Peter!
A nice story. My, hasn't Blue Peter caught up with the times!
Cumbria has about 360 chipped Voles from the same source in Devon on a site near Appleby. I noted the Canada Geese on the Scottish receptor site - they are also at the Cumbrian site. There was some concern about dominance and aggression to Voles by this species at the site.
p.s. the link worked for me Ron |
17-06-2009, 07:21 AM
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| | | Re: Water Voles on Blue Peter!
I couldn't find the Vole link you specified but did find this link for Voles: BBC - Search results for voles
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17-06-2009, 07:30 AM
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| | | Re: Water Voles on Blue Peter!
Watched the film and it was good to see them being released just a short drive from my house, though I believe that there are lots of Mink in the Trossachs.
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17-06-2009, 07:50 AM
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| | | Re: Water Voles on Blue Peter!
Maybe the link only works if you already use iplayer. I never thought about that. Your link's great, Ron.
Does anyone know whether the Devon farm is Derek Gow's?
Re translocation, I thought Scottish water voles were genetically different from English/Welsh voles and therefore you couldn't move them so far? Obviously I was wrong, or maybe they think it doesn't matter if the genes get mixed up. |
17-06-2009, 08:49 AM
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| | | Re: Water Voles on Blue Peter!
You were correct about Scottish Water Voles, see the following link: Conserving Scotland's Water Voles
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17-06-2009, 09:12 AM
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| | | Re: Water Voles on Blue Peter!
Thanks for the link, VW
Interesting developments on this thread, too.
Ron, where you live must be absolutely beautiful, lucky you. 
D.
P.S. Have just read the link you posted Ron. I was thinking the farm in Devon must be aware of the gentic differences, and perhaps they have accounted for this in breeding "scots" voles to relocate north of the border? Just a thought, but it would be interesting to find out more.
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17-06-2009, 10:05 AM
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| | | Re: Water Voles on Blue Peter!
That's what I was thinking of:
At the end of the last Ice Age, water voles from ice-free refugia in southern Europe recolonised Britain as the ice retreated. The voles that colonised England and Wales originated from south east Europe, whereas Scotland’s voles are descended from migrants from northern Iberia. It is thought that the colonisation of Britain occurred in two waves initially from Iberia and latterly from the Balkans. The second wave of colonisers presumably displaced the existing occupants of England and Wales, but failed to displace their more northerly counterparts.
But yes, Dutchess, now I think about it, there's no reason to suppose the farm doesn't have a stock of Scottish-type water voles.
Has anyone here ever seen a black water vole? I'd LOVE to spot one, though not much chance here in Shropshire. | | | |
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