Waterways "in good shape"
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rr_123
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Re: Waterways \"in good shape\"
Regularly saw kingfishers on the K and A in the middle of Reading, saw some large aquatic mammal too, and mink. Plenty fish too. Chubb the size of whales (or Wales?) in the Thames at Staines.
I wouldn't drink it (untreated), but I'd swim in it; I don't think the waterways, certainly the ones that I use regularly, are in too bad a condition!
R
Regularly saw kingfishers on the K and A in the middle of Reading, saw some large aquatic mammal too, and mink. Plenty fish too. Chubb the size of whales (or Wales?) in the Thames at Staines.
I wouldn't drink it (untreated), but I'd swim in it; I don't think the waterways, certainly the ones that I use regularly, are in too bad a condition!
R
Grehan
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Re: Waterways \"in good shape\"
Excellent news (we lived plumb in the centre of the Wallingford-Reading-Henley 'loop' - and I have swum across the river at Whitchurch and lived to tell the tale).
Here in France we've got lots of kingfishers of various types and colours, and bee-eaters but also loads of coypu too. They are not so good, quite the reverse. Mind you, we also have some impressively big buzzards and eagles, too - aren't those red kites flying around Ipsden (etc.) terrific !
Excellent news (we lived plumb in the centre of the Wallingford-Reading-Henley 'loop' - and I have swum across the river at Whitchurch and lived to tell the tale).
Here in France we've got lots of kingfishers of various types and colours, and bee-eaters but also loads of coypu too. They are not so good, quite the reverse. Mind you, we also have some impressively big buzzards and eagles, too - aren't those red kites flying around Ipsden (etc.) terrific !
Phill
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Re: Waterways \"in good shape\"
Most of the river where we are seems clean enough to swim. Ive tried to keep the kids onboard but as soon as we stop... they jump.
And they could do this all day long.
Happy kids, Happy parents. Aint that the truth.
Most of the river where we are seems clean enough to swim. Ive tried to keep the kids onboard but as soon as we stop... they jump.
And they could do this all day long.
Happy kids, Happy parents. Aint that the truth.