Once you know what they both look like it's fairly easy to tell the differnece - and their habits and movements are quite different too, but until you know them it's an understandable mistake to make. Sadly many water voles have met an unhappy end in the mistaken belief that they were brown rats Water voles are lovely and beneficial animals, but they have become quite scarce.
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Once you know what they both look like it's fairly easy to tell the differnece - and their habits and movements are quite different too, but until you know them it's an understandable mistake to make. Sadly many water voles have met an unhappy end in the mistaken belief that they were brown rats
Water voles are lovely and beneficial animals, but they have become quite scarce.
http://www.wildaboutgardens.org.uk/wildlife/mammals/rat-brown.aspx
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.