Plantsbrook Nature Reserve.

A trip today to Plantsbrook via Pype Hayes fishing pool to check out the little ones, there were five Cygnets, fifteen Gosling and five Ducklings, the two in the picture can only be one or two days old. Birds spotted at Plantsbrook were Blackcap, Dunnock (chick) Chiffchaff, Robin, Grey Heron, Little Grebe, Great Crested Grebe, Moorhen, Tufted Duck and the following young - Gosling (2) Moorhen (1) Duckling (8) Coot (18) as well as the aforementioned Dunnock chick. The Great Crested Grebe is still on the nest, so they should be hatched by the time of my next visit. It was also good to see some Trametes Versicolor - Turkey Tails funghi while I was saving a Bumblebee from certain death, the poor little thing was swimming upside down on top of the lake, so I fished him out, put him on a log, he dried out after a few minutes and flew off.