Our cover pic ……………………………...by Micky Thompson

The picture this issue is of Cobblers Lock. Walking from the canal bridge in Hungerford along the tow path towards Hungerford Lock is a wonderful stroll, which I am sure many of you have enjoyed. Walking on to Marsh Lock you can see Cobblers Lock at the end of the meadow.

In the warm summer evenings walking quietly along this stretch of the Kennet and Avon Canal, can be enthralling. Many times I have seen the electric blue flash of a kingfisher,on its headlong dash along the canal bank. The now endangered water vole heading like a small motor boat for the far bank, swimming on the surface, unless disturbed, when they dive with a plop to swim under water.

Tread softly on a summer evening and you can sometimes see the large carp, some weighing over twenty pounds grazing the bank with their broad bronze backs out of the water. There are always the Canada geese, mallards, coots and moorhens, and sometimes swans, heron and very occasionally snipe. All this just a stroll from Hungerford High Street.

Micky Thompson

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