Vole acting almost like it knew I didn’t have a proper telephoto lens with me.

Swimming around in the canal, climing out of the water onto a twig, or almost submerged as it dives, it is actually there in every picture, if hard to spot.

When the towpath got busy, it disappeared for so long I gave up waiting for it to return. I’d packed away my camera and was walking past the section of path nearest where it showed. Suddenly it sprang out of the water, scuttled past me as it hurried perhaps four feet along the edge of the back, then ducked back down into cover. The view was brief, but very clear.