I had a walk over to Duchess Pond in Stoke Park this afternoon and was pleased to see that 10 ducklings (out of 12 last Thursday) are surviving.

As well as mallards there were coots, moorhens, mute swans and Canada Geese all looking very purposeful on the lake but I couldn’t see the little grebe from last week.

Around the edges there were robins, blackbirds, great tits and I could good hear a pair of green finches with their distinctive wheezy call.