A walk around the neighborhood 08

Just past the ducks, I saw a group of three egrets fishing in the shallow water.
This is one of the numerous drainage ditches that drain into the river. Generally these contain pretty clean water and contain fish in the later spring and summer. Occasionally, when they pass a factory, the water may be pretty bad, but that does not happen too often.
This is more than a drainage ditch, I guess it could be called a stream, or at least it could have been called a stream hundreds of years ago before all the construction work took place to insure that it stayed on a single path. The river is in the distance and I am standing on a bridge for two way traffic that allows me to cross. Notice the stone construction on the banking on the left side just opposite the raised walkway with railings.

This is that stone construction. It looks quite old and the stones were obviously taken from the river. They are all rounded but more or less the same size. Someone took a lot of time and effort to fit them all together.