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redkite-traveller.bsky.social
Oh wow! Watch. Sorry for the rubbish video but I caught a glimpse of something.....

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December 28, 2025 at 11:53 AM
redkite-traveller.bsky.social
....Exit stage left

Yes yes ducks
We know who's the real star!
The #Moorhen

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December 27, 2025 at 3:46 PM
redkite-traveller.bsky.social
Boxing day blaze of glory!

Morning all!

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A long portrait photo, blazing white winter sun, plus its stark reflections dancing on the breezy ripples of the canal.
December 26, 2025 at 11:47 AM
redkite-traveller.bsky.social
Merry Christmas!
My lovely tree and yes there IS a #MoorningMoorhen , honest!

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A very modest Christmas fir tree, lit up beautifully by the bright sunshine, but also some little crackly light spheres. In the background through the stern canopy, colourful canal boats are resplendent in the sun, and (bonus) underneath the wooden pontoon the silhouette of a Moorhen maybe glimpsed, along with some ducks sheltering from the bitter breeze.
December 25, 2025 at 9:56 AM
redkite-traveller.bsky.social
#MoorningMoorhen

This morning!
(Just about morning, just before midday)

Gorgeous glimpse of local Moorhen on sunny ripples on the cut.

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December 24, 2025 at 11:42 AM
redkite-traveller.bsky.social
Ripples on the cut
Natures texture

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December 24, 2025 at 11:20 AM
redkite-traveller.bsky.social
Morning reflections
Ripples on the cut

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December 24, 2025 at 10:56 AM
redkite-traveller.bsky.social
Twos company
Dozing Ducks on the cut

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December 23, 2025 at 10:49 AM
redkite-traveller.bsky.social
#MoorningMoorhen
#Moorhenmadness

Caught this marvellous Moorhen doing some nifty balancing this morning

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December 6, 2025 at 10:00 AM
redkite-traveller.bsky.social
#MidnightMoon
#ColdMoon

Getting back to the boat late last night, everywhere seemed lit up by this amazing bright moon, but oh, it was freezing cold!

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A startlingly bright moon appears to light up the slender branches of a shapely tree, adding sparkling highlights to the dark limbs. This photo even feels cold!
December 5, 2025 at 1:04 PM
redkite-traveller.bsky.social
Moorning!

Ducks on the cut in December....

Chilly start to the day, 2⁰C with a frigid breeze

But these birds chilling gracefully on the shorelines....

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December 3, 2025 at 10:07 AM
redkite-traveller.bsky.social
#sunrise

That golden moment
Check alt text too

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Blue sky with a few wispy clouds is set on fire by a egg yolk golden sunrise set behind spindly winter trees on the horizon. In the foreground ripples on the cut just about refect the golden sun.
November 30, 2025 at 8:49 AM
redkite-traveller.bsky.social
There's always a Moorhen!

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November 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
sallybartonart.bsky.social
From the archive - detail from the first of a number of narrowboat portraits executed over the years. This is 'Dawn Chorus' #canalboat #riverlife #watercolour #portrait #narrowboats #narrowboatsofinstagram #artistonbluesky #waterside #bargee #canalboatlife #watercolorpainting #reflectionsinwater
November 24, 2025 at 9:24 PM
redkite-traveller.bsky.social
It was VERY chilly on the cut this morning!

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A black mooring rope coated in white frost
November 20, 2025 at 12:16 PM
redkite-traveller.bsky.social
Sunset over the cut
Reeds into the dark
Hardly a ripple

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A bright amber sunset over the canal blending into a sky of deep indigo The skyline is broken by tall reeds, spiky against the sky A pontoon leads out to moored boats The canal is calm with none of the wild thrashing of the storm of last week
November 18, 2025 at 7:11 PM
redkite-traveller.bsky.social
#MorningMoorhen

Rainy day on the cut

Moorhen making purposeful way up on to moorings

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November 10, 2025 at 12:35 PM
redkite-traveller.bsky.social
through the round window....

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Morning view of beautiful skyblue sky (!) washed with a few high whispy cottonwool clouds viewed through a porthole window on a narrowboat.
November 5, 2025 at 10:34 AM
redkite-traveller.bsky.social
Halloween moon on the water

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A bright autumnal moon with halo and flare brightens up the dark and choppy water with flashes and glints of light.
November 1, 2025 at 8:38 AM
redkite-traveller.bsky.social
Aaaand stretch!

#midafternoonMoorhen

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October 30, 2025 at 3:11 PM
redkite-traveller.bsky.social
Amazing (blue)sky !

(Plus favourite tree)

View from a Narrowboat

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October 28, 2025 at 8:18 AM
redkite-traveller.bsky.social
#MorningMoorhen

Sheltering from the chilly breeze

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October 28, 2025 at 7:44 AM
redkite-traveller.bsky.social
#MorningMoorhen

Love the avian calisthenics of these slightly daft but gorgeous birds

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#Marvellous
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October 27, 2025 at 8:37 AM
redkite-traveller.bsky.social
My washing
2nd time today, I've checked the launderette, no one there.
I go back to the boat, gather my bag and wash stuff and return to the laundrette, both washers now full and there's a queue!
3rd time lucky?
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October 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
redkite-traveller.bsky.social
Brrrr...
Chilly on the cut this morning!
But.
A bright blue sky and a favourite tree to set you up for the day


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A large tree on a high point above a canal. The tree is still partially green and stands against a vivid blue sky with flicks of whispy bright white cloud behind. It is a BIG sky today, if you know what I mean. The thin portrait arrangement of the photo accentuates this.
October 24, 2025 at 9:30 AM