Today dawned with the best kind of summer holiday weather which, as a child, would have had me and my family grabbing buckets, spades and beach towels and heading down to our favourite small, sandy cove on the Lizard in Cornwall.
As it was Father's Day, after the girls had given my husband his cards and gifts, we went to the nearby WWT at Arundel thinking it might be cooler near all those lakes and ponds.
It was just after 11am and already very hot when we arrived and, as we crossed the footbridge to the entrance, a kingfisher darted out over the pond and hovered for a few seconds before darting back to the shade of the trees - what a greeting!
The girls wanted to feed the birds first:
Then we went along to the pond dipping area, it was so hot that we only stayed there for about half an hour. Our small haul consisted Alderfly larva, bloodworms and tiny shrimps:
We retreated to a nearby hide for shade and spotted a family of Canada geese in the shade of the trees:
After a couple of hours we decided that it was to go home as it was so hot. On our way we saw some Magpie Geese and their nest in a fenced-off area, which a nearby staff member told us was because the male can be very aggressive while the females are laying their eggs. She explained that they usually lay about 14 eggs before they start incubating them - they had 3 so far.
Just as we reached our car, I saw something small dart across the car park and stop beneath our car. It was a tiny duckling! Gabby went to tell a warden, who came along and had to climb under the car to catch it!
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