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Hedge Rows, Voles
Mainly open, grassy habitats with dense ground cover. Particularly likes overgrown fields with damp tussock grass. Also found on moors and in hedgerows. Territory field voles, active by day and night, are aggressive and each one has its own small territory which it fiercely defends from other voles. They fight noisily, uttering loud squeaks and angry chattering noises. Each vole makes runways among the grass stems, usually cantered on a tussock
where it nests.
Water voles are currently declining at a fast rate. Until 6th April 2008
water voles have some protection under the Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981, this
includes protection from killing or taking by certain prohibited methods and
their breeding and resting places being fully protected from destruction or
obstruction, it is also an offence to disturb them in these places Read on > Index Shrubs and Plants Mammals Insects Mice Voles Yellowhammers Cornbuntings Sparrows Robins Wrens Tits Snakes Hedgehog
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