You down there!

I can't remember the last time I've seen this many cygnets all together in one family. As well as Mum and Dad - who isn't in the photo - there was what I presumed was one of last years siblings as it still had a few grey feathers and its wings didn't look fully formed.

Along with all the ducks they knew exactly when people would turn up to feed them. We even saw half a dozen ducks clamber up a bank from the river Eden, wander across a road and down into the tributary that runs through the grounds of Hever castle and feeds into the lake at the end of the Italian gardens.