Friday the thirteenth

Walked to Thorpe Top Treble :

Hungry heron very visible.









Interesting after t'other week's shenanigins with Charlotte: a couple on NB Kano had prewarned BW that they were coming to Stret lock. BW blocked Morse weir:

 and sent water through from Lockkeeper pound and from above Cinderhill lock 
Cinderhill pound down

Nice people on the boat but 4 or five BW staff taken for most of a working day just to let one boat through? That's where the money goes.

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The mandarin's on Feeder lock where he's still chaperoning his adopted family.

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The swan above Turnerwood is as stroppy as ever: he was really pursuing a (female!) mallard











and I tempted him into a go at my shoe.

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By the time I got back down, Kano was through and at Haggonfields

 and there was a  queue at Deep lock.

Heron was still hanging around, I know they've got to eat to live but they take a toll of the ducklings!