Water Vole Survey
We need your help to find out where water voles are living in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.
Take a walk along your local waterway during May and June and tell us what you can see in our survey.
Water voles feed on lush stems and leaves of waterside plants like reeds so any waterway is an ideal place for them to be seen. Water voles have been seen at our Dogsthorpe Star Pit nature reserve in Peterborough and at the Great Fen project.
They are one of our most popular native species of mammal. They are often affectionately known as Ratty after the character in Kenneth Grahame’s Wind in the Willows.
Having been in decline since the 1960’s we would like to record the places we know where water voles are residing.
The information you provide will help us to map out popular water vole areas. We can then compare this to other surveys and hoepfully we can see new water vole populations emerging in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.
Complete our online survey.
You can also support our work by adopting a water vole.
Download our guides-
How to look for a water vole (pdf)
Water Vole fact sheet (pdf)
Water Vole © David Hunter