Wild Birds on the Canal Path

PAST

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PRESENT
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Um favourite bits, probably by the canal, just at the top of Hoxton. Again partly it's the route, you can get straight up to Angel one way and to Hackney the other way. It's just a good resource to have in the area, a little green ribbon going through it.

I don't know about stories, it's always a good area to keep your eyes open. There's a lot of bird life around there, mostly it's just a couple of old mallards or coots and moorhens but you get otherstuff, you get the occasional heron, common turn, there was a little grebe there last year for about three weeks. This time of year there are dragonflys around. British Water Space have changed their management of the towpath as well so it's not all just very short grass, you've got a strip of quite long grass and as you walk down that you've got the butterflys but you also hear the grasshoppers there which you just don't get anywhere else in Shoreditch.

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One small change, um, is that on the estates and Shoreditch park, they have started to manage it less intensely, so as i said, it's not all just short grass now, they will actually leave it so that they grass is longer and now the plants grow, the flowers can actually grow a few stem seeds which produces food sources for birds and lavae sources for caterpillers and stuff. So yeah there could be an improvement for the types of birds we can see in the area.