Are my feathers ok?

I have only just managed to upload yesterday's blip.
As I had some free time yesterday and the weather was good I took myself and the camera out for the day. It was quite exciting being out of the garden and I ended up taking photos of just about everything that moved and everything that didn?t! Transferring them all proved to be a bit too much for my laptop though which went into self destruct mode and kept shutting itself off with no warning! However, once done I did end up with a few decent shots including some of some geese (well, I think they were geese) that I have not seen before. I also saw two nests on the bank of the island in the middle of the river. One was a coot with some newborns and the other a very colourful bird with a crest. I looked in a book and think it might have been a Great Crested Grebe. Sadly they were all quite well hidden under the willow branches and too far away to get a decent shot.
Fortunately you can always rely on a swan!