Three families of greylag geese with goslings in West Park this year. The goslings in the different families at different ages, but when they come ashore the adults often bring them together so they can share lookout duty.
When I first spotted them, the goslings were feeding among daisies in one of the patches of short grass near the lake. For reasons which weren’t clear to me, the adults decided to herd them nearer to the lake, and incidentally a little closer to where I was standing. I thought they were heading for the safety of the water. Instead, they stopped part way across the path. The goslings got themselves settled, and started hunting the cracks in the path for morsels to eat.