The flush of Sping flowers has died away but we are left with something rather magical – water lilly flowers! They make me think of childhood stories involving water babies, frogs and princesses.

Much of the pond activity is as usual below the surface, and it will be teeming with juvenile amphibians and invertibrates.

We had an escaped traffic cone in the sluice duct but by the time we had worked out how to recover it, it had been recaptured and returned to it’s herd. The last thing we want is feral cones in the pond!