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The heronry is on the Lune, a short flight away. They pop up to the canal occasionally. This one kept landing on the towpath, and had to fly off when bicyclists came charging down on him. he found this spot and was catching small fish when we caught up with him again.
Looking at that bill remindsme I once found a heron's skull with bill and 'scalp lock' attached. I had it for ages until one of the dogs noticed it and chewed it up.
The Kennet & Avon Canal was designed by John Rennie, and was constructed between 1794 and 1810; the Bath-Devizes section opened in 1804. In 1852 the canal was bought by its main competitor, the Great Western Railway, who raised tolls and slowly decreased maintenance. The GWR were refused permission to close the canal in 1926, but by the time of nationalisation large parts of it were no longer navigable. Restoration started following the 1963 separation of British Rail and British Waterways, and was formally announced complete in 1990.
A spring morning on the Regent's Canal, DeBeauvoir, Hackney. Ilford HP5+ taken with an Olympus mjuii. The pontoon on the left is sometimes moored in front of the cafe for additional seating. The owners put out picnic blankets in nice weather.
Some holes in a tree (possibly made by a woodpecker) along the towpath by Akron, Ohio. Fun place to walk along, I went there with a friend a few days ago.
Lagan towpath at sunset. Thought it was time to have a go at HDR again. Can never tell where to draw the line with processing though, any comments?!
Along the Slackwater section of the towpath, there are survey markers set every 200 feet or so. There seems to be some slight order in that marker 881 follow marker 880, but then the next marker is 852. If one thought that someone had mistakenly put a 5 instead of an 8 they would be wrong because 882 is 4 markers further downstream. I waypointed all of the markers with my GPS and seeing them all lined up in sequence doesn't make them any easier to understand.