Two trios of mallards, asleep not far from West Park’s boating lake recenty. The groups were on different sides of the path around the lake, with only ten or so yards separating them.
Resident swans on West Park lake have had breeding successes for several years in a row. Here a pair of protective adults with their brood of six cygnets which were only a day or two old when these pictures were taken the middle of last month.