I'm startled, their startled

A day which began at Kwik Fit, after yesterday's excitement, and then an introduction to next doors new puppy (cutest photo of the day). And then ......

A walk from the Ship Inn at Lathom alongside the Rufford branch of the Leeds Liverpool Canal, cutting across the fields on a minor footpath and returning along a draiange ditch and back to the Canal. Excellent lunch at the Inn (we'll have to return)

Seen on the way - Whooper Swans in the fields eating carrots, the first singing skylarks and yellowhammers, and .....

Going up the steep side of the drainage ditch to the top, startled to find about 300 pink footed geese grazing the fields on the other side. They were also startled to see me, and took flight just after I took this photo.

It really did feel like spring today.