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Tag: invasive species

The Guardian Country Diary: Nest raids by feral mink take their toll

The moorhen had tried again. My passing-by startled her out of her nest – a cup at the foot of a stand of fading yellow flag irises, not two metres from the lakeshore. Before I made an apologetic retreat, I took note of a single soft-spotted pale egg resting in the hollow. All being well, another five or six would follow.

ecology, invasive species, mink, wildlife, yorkshire

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