The Thames and the K and A to Devizes

Part 3 - Some wildlife that we saw

Some of the herons were very tame, and happily posed for photographs	This handsome peacock was particularly keen to show off his finery		The baby coots tend to be a lot more shy ...	... and swim back to Mum whenever they are disturbed.

The cygnets seemed to be particularly plentiful this year	Although some cygnet families were smaller than others	We had not seen black swans with their cygnets before. Somehow we expected them to look different from white swan cygnets.		Even baby Canada geese are cute

Even some of the boats seemed to have their babies with them	This cormorant was most impressive, drying his wings in the sun	Whereas they were once incredibly rare, now there are dozens of red kites over the Thames		Of course, some of the wildlife is older than the rest.

There were a lot of these flying around over the Thames	On closer inspection we found that some of the wildlife had been artistically constructed from old rubbish		There were more fish than I have ever seen in the canal at Newbury	It seemed as if even the fish wanted to pose for photographs

Note: photos with their caption in italics are © J.Stansfield