Pennington Flash

Afternoon toddle round Pennington Flash. The clouds loomed large but it never got round to raining. 

Egyptian goose, Pennington Flash

Spotted this Egyptian goose passing by as I was buying a sausage butty from the van. A nice addition to the year list (I'd had no luck to date because the resident Egyptian goose at Keg Pool was taken into care last Guy Fawkes Night and English Nature won't issue a licence to let it go back home despite its having lived there without incident for the past twelve years. Egyptian goose is on DEFRA's kill list because they devour cattle or somesuch.) 

Quite a few young kingfishers whizzing round, refusing to stop for photographs. Better luck with a pair of courting terns looking like they might have a go at nesting here after all and a nice family group of little ringed plovers.

Common terns, Pennington Flash

Common tern, Pennington Flash

Juvenile little ringed plover, Pennington Flash

Little ringed plovers, Pennington Flash

Icing on the cake was a family of roe deer coming down for a drink across from the Tom Edmondson Hide.

Roe deer fawn, Pennington Flash

Roe deer fawn, Pennington Flash

Roe deer hind, Pennington Flash