There are sometimes water voles active along the canal, but they always duck away before I get any chance of a picture.
The photos here were taken some years ago. I was on a summer cycle tour, and had landed up in Salisbury. Behind the cathedral there are extensive meadows with several paths and cycle routes.
At one point, a sturdy fence and a deep ditch separated a path from the meadow. A family of voles were swimming in the ditch and running about on the far bank in broad daylight. They seemed to know that they were safe from disturbance, and may have been youngsters at play with the parents on guard.
I was travelling light to keep the bike’s load down, so I didn’t really have a long enough lens. But these are still the only clear pictures I have ever got of voles.