{"id":3880,"date":"2011-06-24T23:25:38","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T22:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=3880"},"modified":"2011-06-24T23:25:38","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T22:25:38","slug":"my-first-clear-image-of-a-water-vole-or-rat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=3880","title":{"rendered":"My first clear image of a water vole (or rat)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have always admired some of the other Abingdon Blogs.<\/p>\n<p>Take <a href=\"http:\/\/viewsoftheock.blogspot.com\/\">Views of the Ock<\/a>. When that blog started, the blogger was elated after weeks of searching to get an\u00a0 indistinct blurred image of a water vole (I think they are also called water rats). Images got better and better until now the blogger seems able to find them at will, and has gone on to find other creatures like otters.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11062406.jpg\" alt=\"Signs\" \/><br \/>\nToday I saw my first water vole in the Margaret Brown Gardens, then almost immediately I saw five others. They scurried away, one down the riverside, the other five under the lavender.You can just see one cautiously peeping out to see if it is safe yet.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11062405.jpg\" alt=\"Signs\" \/><br \/>\nHe \/ she then came out a bit further&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11062404.jpg\" alt=\"Signs\" \/><br \/>\nThen finally came into full view. My first clear image of a water vole (or is it a rat?). Just to add <em>&#8220;Many people, including pest controllers, builders and developers, mistake the endangered water vole for the brown rat and accidentally poison them&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have always admired some of the other Abingdon Blogs. Take Views of the Ock. When that blog started, the blogger was elated after weeks of searching to get an\u00a0 indistinct blurred image of a water vole (I think they are also called water rats). Images got better and better until now the blogger seems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-wildlife"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>My first clear image of a water vole (or rat) - Abingdon Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=3880\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"My first clear image of a water vole (or rat) - Abingdon Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I have always admired some of the other Abingdon Blogs. 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