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[ffutures]

Some pictures I've taken along the canal and in Kensington Gardens over the last few weeks. Nothing too mind-boggling, just birds, plants and the canal itself. I've reduced them in size to save downloading woes.



Cat and budgies on a barge



Young geese swimming in duckweed.







An overflow system at the Camden Lock canal basin







Baby ducks in duckweed







Blackberries? There are huge masses of these bushes along the canal near Willesden - I think they're under-ripe blackberries.



A panorama I took near Willesden, stitched from several images.



A railway bridge near Willesden





A coot shwing its feet very clearly.



Some ducks and a heron in Kensington Gardens

Comments

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I do love that cat's expression! And what a brilliant picture of the coot's foot - I don't think I've ever really looked at them before.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

He was completely impassive, despite the birds fluttering around and obviously not being very keen on his presence, but I'm sure he was watching them out of the corner of his eye.

Coots are weird, I had no idea they were like that until a year or two ago, now I can't think how I never noticed. That's the clearest photo I've managed to get so far, it really is quite startling how different they are from ducks.