Spot the Habitat

[Heartland]

I see CRT are offering a canal boat holiday if you can work out where the Heron is on the canal side. Perhaps only botanists should apply as the flora would need identification

[Bacchus]

By not adding the picture or a link, you have certainly added a layer of complexity to, what sounds like, an already intriguing puzzle.

 

Guess what the picture looks like, then work out where it's taken?

 

Of course the irony is that anyone who knows the entire canal network well enough to work out where a picture of a heron is taken, probably doesn't need to win a canal holiday... they might prefer a week in Benidorm (c:

[MtB]

44 minutes ago, Bacchus said:

Of course the irony is that anyone who knows the entire canal network well enough to work out where a picture of a heron is taken, probably doesn't need to win a canal holiday... they might prefer a week in Benidorm (c:

 

I suspect the competition might be to spot where in the picture the heron is (having been photoshopped out), rather than where on the system the photo was taken. In the same vein as the "Spot the ball" competitions popular when I was a yoof.

 

But for now the main task is to figure out where to find the photo! 

 

 

 

 

[Chris Lowe]

I got that email as well, try this link

 

https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/actnowforcanals-and-look-after-the-blue-and-green-space-on-your-doorstep/protect-canals-for-nature/survey?utm_source=marketo&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=mktg_newsletter_130&utm_content=actnowsth&utm_term=image&mkt_tok=MjYwLUhVTy0wNDYAAAGDoqw6JROlrpylvpTJNZSJn17AL7p2Megv2qdB22n82OeVswgxk5o5HGpJ4adzYPC2wBj5LZ-yzNY4TEFAYmMuRtKfWL06n4hzM8xZM8etFw

[MtB]

6 minutes ago, buccaneer66 said:

I got that email as well, try this link

 

https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/actnowforcanals-and-look-after-the-blue-and-green-space-on-your-doorstep/protect-canals-for-nature/survey?utm_source=marketo&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=mktg_newsletter_130&utm_content=actnowsth&utm_term=image&mkt_tok=MjYwLUhVTy0wNDYAAAGDoqw6JROlrpylvpTJNZSJn17AL7p2Megv2qdB22n82OeVswgxk5o5HGpJ4adzYPC2wBj5LZ-yzNY4TEFAYmMuRtKfWL06n4hzM8xZM8etFw

 

Ah thanks. 

 

Photo reproduced below. Can anyone see a heron in it anywhere??

 

 

[tree monkey]

7 minutes ago, MtB said:

 

Ah thanks. 

 

Photo reproduced below. Can anyone see a heron in it anywhere??

 

 

it's so obvious, if you look just to the very far left and squint you can see the tip of a herons beak

[David Mack]

13 minutes ago, MtB said:

 

Ah thanks. 

 

Photo reproduced below. Can anyone see a heron in it anywhere??

 

 

[Sea Dog]

It's because they stand so still. Wait til it moves, then you'll see it.

[Tonka]

32 minutes ago, MtB said:

 

I suspect the competition might be to spot where in the picture the heron is (having been photoshopped out), rather than where on the system the photo was taken. In the same vein as the "Spot the ball" competitions popular when I was a yoof.

 

But for now the main task is to figure out where to find the photo! 

 

 

 

 

I used to use a pin to stick on the photo. When I heard a spurt of air, that was the ball

[Bacchus]

2 hours ago, Tonka said:

I used to use a pin to stick on the photo. When I heard a spurt of air, that was the ball

 

so, in this case, when you smell fish you've found the heron?

2 hours ago, MtB said:

 

I suspect the competition might be to spot where in the picture the heron is (having been photoshopped out), rather than where on the system the photo was taken. In the same vein as the "Spot the ball" competitions popular when I was a yoof.

 

But for now the main task is to figure out where to find the photo! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ok in the spirit of the game...

 

(although I think the reflection might give it away...🧐)

 

 

 

[Tracy D'arth]

I was looking for Terence Conran.

[Heartland]

There I was thinking that a canal forum "David Bellamy" might rush out of the foliage and say 

"it s a canal" !

[MtB]

6 hours ago, Heartland said:

There I was thinking that a canal forum "David Bellamy" might rush out of the foliage and say 

"it s a canal" !

 

 

I agree. It definitely looks like the heron (I've spotted it now) is standing in the canal.

 

Hope that helps someone win.

 

 

[Hudds Lad]

Do i get extra points for spotting a goldfish?  

[Bacchus]

2 hours ago, Hudds Lad said:

Do i get extra points for spotting a goldfish?  

 

 

If you can hit it with a ping-pong ball, you can take it home...

[Heartland]

Now the question is was the bird photoshopped or not ?

 

Here is a real one on the canal in Worcester.

 

 

And the habitat looks better too !

 

Edited April 11, 2022 by Heartland

[Hudds Lad]

51 minutes ago, Heartland said:

Now the question is was the bird photoshopped or not ?

 

Here is a real one on the canal in Worcester.

 

 

And the habitat looks better too !

 

Definitely looks more environmentally-friendly due to being photographed on a potato  

[cuthound]

I misread the title and spent ages looking for the halibut...