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    Taken on 23rd at Lwwt. He was very obliging and swam across the water channel fairly slowly.
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    Fantastic, Joe!

    I remember when I used to watch those wonderful little creatures in a stream over our garden wall.

    That was in the 50s, and not uncommon then.

    I have never seen a Water Vole since.

    That little stream was culverted to allow housebuilding on the site a few years later.

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    Nice shots Joe, it is a shame that sighting them is so rare, similarly, I used to see them all the time back in the 50s and sixties, but didn't really appreciate them.
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    Fantastic - it's such a pity that they aren't around much now. THey are supposedly in a small park near me but I've not seen one yet.

    I also remember them as a kid in the 60s, and distinctly remember the 'plop' as they entered the water as an expected and regular part of the noise of being by the river.

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    Up until now all I had heard of them was the plop as I approached.

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