Jubilee River

Beautiful paddle along the Jubilee river today - we saw many birds  including coots, moorhens,  mallards, cormorants, a heron, a pair of grebes, and I think I saw a flash of a kingfisher. There was quite a lot of weed near the edge and close to the weir which was fun to paddle through!




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