We enjoyed a walk around the pond right beside us. We saw pochards and a gold finch and some pigeons seem to come in close to Shane’s head a couple of times. The usual array of water birds were there, swans, geese, mallards, coots and moorhens. I am fond of the moorhens but they are often shy and swim off. They rarely come for feeding. Today though there were a few tamer ones, but even then they were in retreat.