Stourhead Swans

It looked like the Stourhead Garden Team had been honing their topiary skills when we took a stroll round the lake this morning, enhancing the view towards The Pantheon.

It was as busy as I've seen it today, with lots of people taking advantage of the first really Springlike day in these parts, particularly young families following the Easter Egg trail.

In extras, a real life, also possibly amorous, swan was getting very territorial, seeing off a Canada Goose that he'd taken a dislike too.

Couldn't resist another extra of the classic Stourhead view, with "hosts of golden daffodils" sunbathing on the lakeside