Pop-up Duck on Big Water

Today, Postman Pat and his mum took us on a socially distanced walk to "big water" which is what the local reservoir is now called : )

It was a lovely walk. Our grandson showed us silver birch trees, alpacas, brambles and nettles and told us their names. He was two in April so I was very pleased with him! I must say it was so nice to have him chatting to us and not super shy like he was the other day. I found it really hurtful to have him so shy albeit understandable as he has only seen us on video calls for over three months.

One of the delights of the walk was sitting on the bank of the reservoir while our grandson ate a snack and watched the pop-up duck performing in front of us. It was a grebe but I now think Pop-up duck is a much nicer name : )

In my photo, the black dot right in the middle is the pop-up duck but my camera would not cooperate and take a closer photo. In reality, the grebe was a few feet from us and we could see every movement it made very clearly.