Through Mesopotamia

The walk through Mesopotamia is a regular 'scenic' route into the centre of Oxford.  Today, beautifully still and cold.  

There is regularly lots of bird life around - tits and finches, robins, blackbird plus ducks, geese and swans on the river and various corvids and red kites overhead - and if you are lucky deer and foxes along the flood plains. 

If you get really lucky you might get a glimpse of a kingfisher. And if you'd asked me yesterday I'd have been a bit sceptical about the chances of seeing an otter on this bit of the river.

Today, we spent about 20 minutes watching a kingfisher repeatedly (and successfully) diving for fish in one of the bigger pools and an otter ducking and diving just below the kingfisher's branches.

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