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There was an approaching rain storm ahead and a low winter's evening sun behind, causing the light to pick out the white swans on the dark water.

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A cottage is reflected in the water of the Basingstoke canal at Dogmersfield under the Barley Mow bridge

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A couple of bullocks have a chase around on a warm summer's afternoon, near Tundry pond in the Dogmersfield loop of the Basingstoke canal.

I was quite lucky to get this, I'd been standing in the spot for a some minutes waiting for the sun to light the landscape though a hole in the clouds, just after it shone through the bullocks started getting frisky and chasing around and ran right into the scene, the two ducks don't seem at all bothered.

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I walk past this spot a lot, don't ever recall having seen a heron here before . . . and such a camera friendly one too

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