After sitting still for a while watching a female grebe sitting lazily on her nest, Adam spotted the male swimming home (from the left). Initially we thought he was bringing a fish to his wife, but once we’d got home, uploaded the pictures and zoomed in we could see that he actually had a piece of reed which he placed on the nest.

Adam and I decided to take a few hours away from our home office and make the most of one of the rare days this Spring that the rains abated! A dat well spent as this was one of nature's wonders we discovered!

After several years of planning and preparation, Adam finally put some fish into our garden pond the year before last. We seldom saw them last year, presumably because they were a bit wary, but this year, one Koi in particular didn’t seem to be afraid to bask in the warm, early spring sun.