There were the first glimpses of the sun for over a week as we started our walk around the park this morning. However, it was only a teaser and it didn’t last long. We are promised better tomorrow.

No sun maybe, but there were flashes of brightness throughout our walk as we had several sightings of the magnificent kingfisher. Firstly, we saw one flying along the River Frome west to east, and then two together flying from east to west. Then closer to the park there was one perching and posing.

There was a newcomer to the lake as a northern shoveler seems to have taken up residence.

However there are always plenty of gulls resident and today we saw lesser black-backed and black-headed.

There always seem to be plenty of cormorants at the lake. The fish stocks must be pretty low by now.

Other birds were available …