September 8th – Terrible photos, but something fascinating – a piece of bread on the canal in Walsall, thrown for the birds. Uneaten, the water around is rippling and bubbling almost as if it were boiling.
Turns out the fish were having a feast.
Fascinating and unusual to watch.
April 12th – On the Walsall Canal where the Anson Brach used to spur off between Bentley Bridge and Bentley Mill Way Aqueduct, the swans who I think nested in the abandoned basin last year are nesting anew.
Sadly, the nest isn’t well protected this year and I think an enterprising fox or heron – who fish here regularly – may end up with cygnet tea.
That’s if the phantom bread-flinger does’t chock the wee ones – sadly, the message that bread isn’t good for waterfowl doesn’t seem to be reaching all quarters. I know these folk mean well, but it’s not good for them.
Please, if you feed them, seed or greens instead.
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