Country diary: This could be a case of mistaken rodentity | Nic Wilson
Clophill Lakes, Bedfordshire: Bank vole or wood mouse? On a series of nine-second videos, they’re not so easy to tell apart Bank vole or wood mouse? That is the question. I’m working my way through a series of nine-second videos from <a href="https://www.greensandtrust.org/
Clophill Lakes, Bedfordshire: Bank vole or wood mouse? On a series of nine-second videos, they’re not so easy to tell apart Bank vole or wood mouse? That is the question. I’m working my way through a series of nine-second videos from Clophill Lakes nature reserve , taking notes on how many bank voles appear in the clips. Unfortunately, I can’t tell my voles from my mice. The footage begins at 4.47pm, when wildlife volunteer Stephen Plummer switches on the trail camera in his mostela trap: a wooden box with a drainpipe entrance leading to a scattering of nuts and seeds. Both woo
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