The sky was cloudless this morning and the birds had made the most of this by constant squabbling on the lake especially the coots. One was sitting on it's nest preening but I couldn't get near enough to see closely as it was right next to a Canada Goose nest:

I counted five Canada Goose nests today, the one above having four eggs. All had the females incubating while I was there and there was only a sign of one broken egg taken by a predator. While I was watching, a crow tucked into a dead fish for it's breakfast:

The warblers were out in force today - blackcap, chiffchaff, garden warblers were very active today in the blackthorn and a couple of willow warbler singing their scales:

The wood pigeon are back in abundance and the black-headed gulls conspicuous by their absence, probably nesting on the tern rafts in the gravel pits a few miles away.

There were two deer barking on the other side of the river in the beech woods, not so 'yappy' as a muntjac, so perhaps they were roe deer as the bark was deeper. The noise carried a long distance either to sound an alarm for danger or maybe territorial.

A lot of bumblebees were around today, such as this buff-tailed. Similar to the white-tailed bumblebee, their bands are darker and more orange:

The glaucous sedge is out in flower now and I saw a solitary orange-tip butterfly on the way back to the car.