River Duckweed

[Deaf Cat]

Believe it or not this is a river!



and I spent much of Sunday morning removing weed from line, rings and hook (along with the occasional suffocated fish).

(Those ripples are wind rather than flow)

Bugger those locks!

Still, the swans look good on it.



Update (November) - looking much better now!

[Trevor]

Looks nicely overgrown, but definately looks more like a stillwater than a river

[Mark]

It looks lovely.

[Loop Erimder]

very nice and very green

[Isis]

Hope you never get this stuff.....Azolla, covering the whole waterway for four miles. Four inches thick in some places and the ducks can walk on top of the stuff.

[Scott]

Hope you never get this stuff.....Azolla, covering the whole waterway for four miles. Four inches thick in some places and the ducks can walk on top of the stuff.

Looks like a B road!

[RBTraditional]

River Beult dgc?

[Isis]

Stonebridge Drain (sometimes called Sibsey Trader) from Northlands to Boston golf course Lincolnshire. It has now spread to other drains nearby but not as bad. The EA are aware and are experimenting with releasing weevils to eat the stuff, another possible disaster in the making. The weed thrives on the run-off from local agricultural fertilisers. In some countries they crop the stuff for fertiliser so perhaps our farmers should pick up the tab.

[Deaf Cat]

Spot on RBT - Cross at Hand

[Sparky]

My grandfather told me that when he was a boy, the loch beside his house (Loch Ashie) used to freeze in the winter.

The postman would walk across it to save time!

Now we can do the same thanks to gonk.