Now it's nearly Autumn!

Really don't know where the summer has gone -did I blink and miss it?! In late June we spent a good 2 weeks on the canals (Caldon/Leek/Macclesfield/ Trent and Mersey) and got up close and personal with a great many mallards, swans and Canada geese -but generally because of lack of warm sun there were few butterflies, dragonflies or damselflies which was a disappointment. Cruising though Stoke we saw a kingfisher and occasionally saw herons in the most unlikely places - of course there were large numbers of swallows, martins and swifts but the only raptors were buzzards.

Swans were friendly I think they saw canal boats as good feeding stations!