Please hold that pose

Another full day's meeting today and as usual I ate my sandwiches sitting on a bench at the nearby park. Whereas several geese and goslings kept me company last week., this time I only saw handful of adults and just one goslings. I assume that the others were probably at the other side of the pond where I'd seen them before.

While I was eating I heard the very distinctive sound of a Little Grebe. It's a very distinctive sound that you cannot mistake for anything else. I thought I'd seen one in that area once before but that time it had disappeared under water before I could get closer to have a better look and it didn't reappear. This time I had more luck as one dove and surfaced again several times before swimming off again. I was able to follow its sound for a while and at some point I spotted what looked and sounded like another one with some chicks in the distance. Unfortunately I only had the compact camera with me and they were too far away to get a good shot of them. I'm considering taking a camera with more zoom with me next week if I can fit it into my already quite full bag.

While I was watching the Little Grebes, something dropped quite close in front of me and when I looked up I saw a Heron sitting at the top of a dead tree. It flew off only seconds later though. I consider myself very lucky that I hadn't been standing right under it! Walking back I also spotted a Moorhen that seemed to be working on a nest. Unfortunately the compact camera's battery decided to die just when I tried to take a photo of it.

I had very little sleep last night. Not so much because of the mosquito as I managed to squash that, but because I couldn't find my tram/bus pass and I had so spend a few hours searching for it. I eventually found it in the bag where it should have been and where I'd already looked for it 3 times! I'd obviously managed to miss it each time.

A big thank you for the lovely comments and stars on my pink orchid blip from yesterday. As always they are very much appreciated.