Saturday 30 June 2012

Rosie doolittle

Have had some fabulous wildlife spots recently.

We saw a water snake on the Wey, swimming its way (Wey boom boom!) along side the boat!  This was the most exciting have never seen a snake in the UK.  Great spot by the boss.

I then spotted a turtle type creature, not sure exactly, don't think it was a terapin, was quite big.  He was just sitting there, on a big log, in the middle of the Grand Union, near Kings Langley.  A duck was sitting next to him.  Very cool!

A couple of days ago I was walking along the tow Path on the Grand Union, I hear a lot of rustling in the reeds on the other side. I saw something slinking in between them and thought some sort of water rodent, but as it went on realised it was in fact a fish.  A gihuge one!  It was flaffing around in the reeds then splashing around in the water, there may have been more than one at some point.  It was the biggest fish I have ever seen, thats for sure.  Not sure of it type.  It had a peachy pinky fin and a copper coloured body.  It must have been at least a metre long.  Was in a bit of a frenzy too!

A green woodpecker flying across the meadows on the Wey navigation.

A tree creeper, funnily creeping up a tree!  Never seen one of those either!

A young female Mandarin duck on the Thames.

Lots of exciting spots.
NO kingfishers though.  Keeping eyes peeled.

Rxxx

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