High drama on the mean canals of Coventry this morning...

About half a mile from the city centre basin, i ran past a large swan. Coming the other way was a woman walking a huge Husky type dog. The swan obviously took exception to it, perhaps it had young close by. What i can only assume was a show of aggression, it starting hooting loudly, and ran along the water (a lot faster than i could ever go) as if it was going to take off... instead it just kept running across the water for about 100 metres, stopping just short of the husky. The husky to it's credit was having none of it, and starting barking the place down and swinging for the fences.

Even more credit must go to the woman who was walking the dog, and also had a pram, she didn't even flinch and calmly moved on when it was done.

Fantastic entertainment.

Also a female duck looking after about a dozen lovely ducklings on the side of the canal. No more than a couple of hundreds yards further i spied a large rat (which was large enough that i initially thought was a rabbit).... no doubt fancies roast duck for his sunday dinner. Hope the ducklings all survive...