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Sunday 4 February 2018

Medley of Animals, Part 2.

It is a shame I don't get a publishable photo of all the wildlife we see as one of the joys of the canals is the access to animals due to the lack of noise and slow motion travel, and of course just been in the countryside. Mind you I have been feet from some mink cubs on the outskirts of Birmingham and seen deer in Glasgow.

This swallow was posing nicely by our moorings in Thorne on the Stainforth and Keadby Canal. It is actually a Barn Swallow and is the national bird of Eastonia.


Not the best photo of a barn owl ever but it was great to watch it as we left North Frodingham Wharf after out stay up the Driffield Navigation. There had been horrible weather for a couple of days so it was out early as there must have been hungry young to feed.

Unfortunately not swimming back stroke this cow was causing a bit of a whiff as we passed near to Boothferry bridge on the River Ouse on our way to Barmby Barrage.


These hares were just nibbling close to the Pocklington Canal between Gardham Lock and Hagg Bridge. I love the black tips of their ears.

What all the best dressed cattle are wearing this season, matching earrings and necklace! The earrings are a requirement for traceability of the cow via a passport and I think the other must be to activate a counter of feeding system or similar.

These Eurasian Oystercatchers  followed us down the River Derwent for a while as we passed through the Lower Derwent Valley National Nature Reserve, North Duffield Carrs. I think they lay eggs in mid April so these could be the new young as they didn't seem to be too competent at flying. It is the national bird of the Faeroe Islands

The little egret had been missing from the UK for many decades following the over hunting of it to provide plumes for hats. It was partly the loss of the little egret in the UK that prompted the formation of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds in 1889. In recent times it was first found breeding in the Uk in 1996 on Brownsea Island.

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