Rooksbury Mill on a sunny morning

We decided to pay another visit to Rooksbury Mill today on a beautiful sunny morning. Quite a lot of activity on the large and small lake today so hope you enjoy looking at the photos. Some of the birds were a bit distant for my lens to cope with but as they are birds we don't see every day I decided they were worth taking for the record, as was the photo of the water vole having a good feed on the bank.

Ratty (Water Vole) feeding on the bank by the stew pond

Two adult Mute Swans (you can just see the juvenile one hiding behind the tree)

Sun shining on the lake

Great Crested Grebe

Spring is here - lovely catkins

and some beautiful primroses

Tufted Duck

A distant view of a Little Grebe (Dabchick) 

Mr and Mrs Mallard

Mute Swan and Tufted Ducks

This robin kindly sat and posed for me

Little Egret

Teasel head

And to finish off here is a photo taken from the carved bench - I am taking a photo from here every month and then at the end of the year I can look back to see how the scenery changes month on month. 

This is the view for March - already it has changed a lot since the photos I took in January and February so it is going to be interesting to view them all at the end of the year.