A visit to West Park over the Spring Bank Holiday weekend, where at least four sets of coots with nests by the same island in the lake had recently hatched chicks All the chicks looked like they had hatched no earlier than the previous day.
Chicks from three of those broods feature in these pictures, along with their attentive parents. The other set were still on the nest. The nest itself was farther from the shore, and hidden by an overhanging willow. And, from what could be glimpsed, it seemed that those chicks might only have hatched minutes previously.