We spent a couple of nights just North of Audlem at another lovely rural mooring with fantastic views across the countryside to a lake & the River Weaver. There was a bit of a shelf in the canal so Simon put out an old boat trailer wheel to keep us from crunching against the side. He's only just put it out when we had a surprise visitor
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| A bedraggled visitor... |
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| an unknown variety of mouse! |
His fur looked a bit matted at the rear, not sure if it was just water or if he'd picked up some diesel or something similar in the canal. Simon pulled up the wheel on it's rope to let the mouse off on the verge, but it bolted & fell off into the canal. Vera's dinner bowl was then used to rescue it! After being deposited on the grass it burrrowed down in a big tuft & we left it to it.
Had a couple of feathered visitors:
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| Goldfinch on the opposite side of the canal |
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| A crow a few yards up the bank from M |
Amongst the grass and nettles were a few plants, including Yarrow & Field Bindweed.
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| Yarrow |
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| Field Bindweed |
There was also a vetch which I pondered over for ages trying to identify. It had some features that fitted Common Vetch best, & others that were more like Bush Vetch. I think it was the Bush as the flowers were in groups of 4.
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| Bush Vetch |
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