Along The River Lea
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Taking advantage of recent spring sunshine to escape the city and seek some fresh air, I wandered along the river bank from Bow as far as Tottenham Hale
At Cody Dock
Sir Corbet Woodall (1841-1916), Gas Engineer and Governor of the Gas Light and Coke Company, with two of his historic gasometers at Bow
At Bow Lock
Looking towards the tidal mill at Three Mills Island
At Three Mills Island
Who can identify this water fowl?
Old Ford Lock
Beneath the Eastway
Sculling on the Hackney Cut
At Lea Bridge
Barge cat
The Anchor & Hope
Looking towards Clapton
The Lea Rowing Club
At Tottenham Lock
Two Thames Barges at Tottenham Hale
Coal & diesel delivery barge
At Stonebridge Lock
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It looks like an Egyptian goose.
Nice pictures. Thanks
Egyptian duck
It’s an Egyptian goose…an introduced species.
Great photos from what looks like a fab walk – sunshine even! I think the waterfowl might be an Egyptian goose. There were a couple of these for two or three years at Gabriel’s wharf but I haven’t seen them since last spring so perhaps they have moved.
A cheerful set of photographs in the sunshine. We don’t seem to be seeing a great deal of that – but plenty of rain! My dad learnt to swim in the River Lea and my maternal grandmother was a keen rower and member of a ladies’ team. Sadly a nasty capsize took all of her confidence and she couldn’t face going on the water again.
In regards to the duck, I believe it’s a hybrid. It doesn’t bear the markings of a single identifiable species as far as I can discern.
Great photographs!
I live in Stamford Hill and often go for walks along the Lea – we are so very lucky to have the river near, it makes you feel you are in a different world.
That is an Egyptian Goose!
Good Morning Gentle Author,
Your waterfowl looks like an Egyptian goose, increasingly common in the south of England
I spent many an hour wandering the towpaths and banks of the Lea and surrounding canals when an impoverished student living in a dingy basement flat in Clapton during the early 80’s. Clapton was a different place back then, and Sach Road where we lived was almost unrecognisable in its gentrified state on a recent visit. Happy days, if poor.
Your water bird is, I think, an Egyptian Goose….introduced from Africa, but widespread in Southern England now.
? Egyptian Goose ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_goose
Water Fowl question: It’s an Egyptian Goose.
The water fowl is an Egyptian Goose.
This is a lovely walk, my son lives in Clapton and we have walked along the River Lea many times (sometimes stopping at a nice pub for lunch).
Your unidentified bird is an Egyptian duck
My great grandparents lived beside the River Lea at Ferndale, Spring Lane and my grandfather was a champion sculler in the single sculls, I still have some of the prizes that he won, he could also skate and swim and I have a a very big photograph of all the members of an athletics and rowing club that he belonged to in which he is sitting cross legged in the front row, this was taken in the late 1890s.
I have been for a walk along Spring Lane but of course the houses have been demolished as they were often flooded so it was quite emotional for me. Lots of other family history for me in Clapton as my other great grandfather had a florists and garden contractors in Upper Clapton Road with a nursery garden close by.
Another good article. I have walked along the Lea many times over the years as I used to live in Hackney and I still go back there today to do the same. Always manage to spot something that I haven’t seen before and its a nice relaxing walk.