It's amazing what you can find in the little litter-bestrewn river which runs through Melton's country park (up near where we used to live). We took our fishing nets, wellies and a cake box full of water there yesterday for a poke around.
It is the same river that we were exploring on our farm walk at the weekend (the River Eye), so it is hardly surprising that there is some wildlife in there. But we were amazed at just how much:
The big lump in the middle is some sort of clam or mussle shell. This one was empty but we found a live one later about half the size. There are three sorts of fish in the cake box: bullsheads and another type of bottom feeder (I was calling them blinnies but I think I meant blennies, and then I'm not sure); and some smaller ones (minnows, possibly). Loads of snails and cheese-bug type things.
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