The swans on the main pool now have three eggs in their nest...

and this male Newt catches some lunch...

Swan, Mrs 38B has decided to build her nest right next to the boardwalk this year, giving excellent views to passers by.... I took this picture of her (currently with 2 eggs) on my phone!

A newt hiding amongst the plants in the ditch....

If you wander up slowly and quietly to the little bridge by the bird hide, you can spot these little guys swimming around in the almost clear water or sunbathing in the shallows perhaps.

One of our vocal summer visitors.... a Blackcap...

and this pair of wrens were busy nest building ....

Greylag geese "on the lookout" but looking at home on the scrape...

while a Great Tit is "giving it all he's got" on the back hedge...

Spring sunshine brought Yellow Brimstones fluttering by in the breeze and this Comma sunbathing...

This Chiffchaff was hunting for grubs in the willow...

And down in the reed beds was the hum of an amphibian party!....

Common frog (left) Common toad (right and below)...

A number of sleepy Snipe on the scrape today, brilliantly camouflaged in the cut reeds, .... though this one is on watch!

A pair of Tufted Ducks seen on the main pool today...

This fox found a warm sunbathing place in the reeds on a cold winter's day ...

A Bonanza of butterflies today!

Tortoiseshell

Green veined White

Comma

Small White

Red Admiral

Meadow Brown

A stroll along the back of the meadow...

I spy a Whitethroat using the cover of tall plants...

and pretty small flowers by the wayside...

A coot chick begging for food...

Cygnets peeping through the reeds, now 3 days old...

a Greylag goose coming in to land...

and a common Wood Pigeon looking stunning sitting in the blossom ...

New born Cygnets lining up for their first photo shoot...

Goose grass!!! (groan)

A handsome Linnet, sunbathing on the scrub at the back of the meadow...

A Common Whitethroat shaking off the water after a bath!!...

and a male Gadwell on the scrape...

New offspring from one of the many Coot families on Avon Meadows this year ...

A house martin diving in the breeze between the showers today...

Today in the sunshine and showers.... a Greylag goose ....

a Blackcap singing from the tree tops....

and one of the newly arrived Sedge warblers filling the reed beds with that scratchy singing...

The summer visitors are arriving down on the meadows...   here is a Reed Warbler peeping through the reeds...

and a splash of colour from these Marigolds...