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Blue House Farm Open Day
Ratty's riverside rescue
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Blue House Farm Open Day
Location: Essex
The Essex Mammal Group have been successful in obtaining a grant to help the water vole. The water vole is Britain’s fastest declining mammal. Sometimes called the “water rat” these rat sized rodents have blunt noses, short rounded ears and long hairy tails.
Water voles are disappearing fast in many of the UK’s waterways and now very rare or lost altogether.Essex has a number of nationally important sites where water voles can still be found in good numbers. One of these locations is the Essex Wildlife Trust reserve, Blue House Farm at North Fambridge.
The grant, from the Local Heritage Initiative, will help water voles by improving places where they live. This means creating higher banks along watercourses where they live to provide areas of refugia in winter time and periods of heavy flooding. We hope the local people of North Fambridge will get to know one of Britain’s most loved rodent.
The Essex Wildlife Trust is planning an Open Day on at Blue House Farm on Sunday 17th August 14.00 -17.00.
Come to Blue House Farm for a family day out and if you are lucky you will see signs of Ratty.
17 August 2003
Blue House Farm Open Day
Venue: Take the B1012 east from S Woodham Ferrers and after about 3 miles turn right to North Fambridge. Access is via a track on the left off Fambridge Road 200m south of North Fambridge station.
You can find out more about Blue House Farm here
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