Local walks (Part 6)

[smallhobbit]

Today's photos come from a slightly different viewpoint - same canal just slightly spots:

   

The female swan in on a nest and hard to see, her partner was a bit further along the canal:

 

Earlier in the month I photographed some fish.  Firstly sticklebacks in a stream (they're the little black marks):

 

And some bream in the canal:

 

Comments

[mafief]

The canal is very straight. Was this one man made or a modified natural river?

[smallhobbit]

Entirely man-made. The Severn River is slightly further to the west and runs through Gloucester, but is tidal up to Gloucester so having a canal made transport much easier. The river at low tide falls to less than a metre, at high tide is over eight metres, so you can see the value of the canal.