I get the impression that garden birds hide in the rain. The advantage of canal living, if you like birds, is that the water birds are perfectly happy to get wet so there was no shortage of ducks ( might have seen a shoveller today, but not sure), coots, moorhens and moorchicks. We passed a moored boat that was called Moorehen and we wondered if the owners were called Moore, hence the spelling. Then we passed the Moore Post Office and thought that may be why – hadn’t noticed that we would be passing a place called Moore.