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England News |
2003 Spring issue |
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Swan Island
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Fishing by Swan Island |
This shot is taken looking
downstream.
I took this picture to show a favourite place for fishermen to sit as I saw 60 years ago, and they still do today. Just as I did a swan appeared from behind the island. This is the island where swans bred. I use to go each year to see the signets swimming with the pen.
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Both swans then swam out and I couldn't resist the
temptation to take another photo.
They are such beautiful creatures, and I was surprised that they still used this island to breed after all this time. There is probably an adopted name for the island, but I always called it Swan Island as a child. The pebbled beach I was standing on, and where the fishermen sit, is created by the river flow round a bend. It always was a great place to make for during the school holidays, and probably still is!
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Shrewsbury Swans |
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Swans and Ducks
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Again, I couldn't resist taking
another shot of the Swans and
some ducks that were passing as I stood there.
The ducks stopped for a breather, then paddled back in and went on their way upstream towards the weir. The houses opposite are lucky enough to have the river passing by the bottom of their gardens. Many had canoes at the ready, but each garden had a lifebuoy fixed there. This brought home to me just how dangerous it could be living in such a picturesque place.
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