The first hot day saw the Canada Goose nest deserted:

And the parents on the lake with three gosling:

All the other nests were still occupied but it won't be long until the area is mobbed with babies. The treecreeper was still around the copse busy in the trees and long-tailed tits were flitting in the canopy.

A pied wagtail made an uncommon visitor to the lake this morning:

 

And a grebe was braying with nothing paying any attention to him at all:

There were a lot of dead fish around the lake this morning - I counted four. One had what looked like eggs not far from it but on talking to one of the fisherman, it seems the water is too cold for them to be spawning at the moment. I have no idea what it was but it looked like yellow roe. There was also a dead fox cub under a hawthorn tree which I at first thought was asleep. It appeared to have curled up and died as the position was very natural and it didn't look in bad condition.

The terrapin were back on their favourite spot having a sun-bathe:

 

Many more flowers are coming out now - black medick is just starting to come through, as is comfrey. I thought this picture of herb robert growing out of a tree was a lovely shot:

The lady's smock is also common now in the grassy areas:

The coot nest that was a grebe nest that is now a coot nest is back in action and on the other side of the lake, another coot was sitting tight:

The grebe have stopped fiddling with their twigs and are now incubating eggs:

The kingfisher was very active today as well. Unfortunately I had the wrong setting for my camera so only managed to get a blurred shot:

And a bottom shot:

Next time.......