[Mike Barrio]

I've seen a few water voles at Haddo recently, three or four in the last two days ....... this is good news as there used to be lots of them, but I hadn't seen any ( not one ) for about five years!

Best wishes
Mike

[Marc Fauvet]

Time to tie up some big juicy imitations !!!

[Irvine Ross]

That would show that the mink erradication scheme is working.

Good news and very encouraging for those of us who have been checking mink rafts these past few years.

Irvine

[Ewan Lindsay]

Yep, I saw one walking across the path just past the inlet pipe when I was walking to the hut on Friday Mike.

Ewan

[Rob Brownfield]

Unfortunately my cat is slowly eradicting them from our place. 

But she is also removing rats, mice, stoats and rabbits. 

[Derek Roxborough]

Surprised your cat is taking stoats, not the easiest of prey, very good at taking rats as well as rabbits , there was a mink killed in a trap at Kinlochewe this last week , so the mink are getting further north, easgach 1

[Loxiafan]

I have been seeing a few more WV's when out and about too, particularly when sitting quietly waiting for a fish. Great news ! Also, at one beat a Barn Owl hunts for them at dusk so presumably they are there in some numbers.

Lindsay

[Duncan McRae]

Yes,it's great to hear that the voles are making a comeback.I haven't spotted any in the Inverurie area since the 1980s.They used to be really common.
Unfortunately,there seems to be an upsurge in mink numbers.I heard yesterday of one recently set mink trap, close to Inverurie, which has trapped five in the last week or so.

Duncan

[Iain Cameron]

I've seen a few water voles at Haddo recently...

An item from a presentation at this week's British Science Festival here at the University of Aberdeen - http://www.abdn.ac.uk/2012/ -  re the wanderlust of young water voles.

Apparently they do go quite a distance looking for love!
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/news/details-13094.php

[Iain Cameron]

the daily mash also reports that voles are making a comeback...

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/environment/water-vole-has-a-massive-go-at-heron-2012060829768