Ducklings

Today's the day ........................... to take off your gloves

A couple of warm-ish days - and everything goes mad.

On my walk to work along the riverside the sun shone down. Not only did I have to take off my gloves and scarf - I could really have done with my sunglasses. I saw my first swallows of the year, swooping and diving over the water and two dippers flashed past on their way upstream. Overnight it seemed, the delicate almond blossom was in full flower.

Then I saw these fluffy bundles - Mrs Mallard with her twelve ducklings. Actually, I wonder what the collective noun for ducklings is? A dooking, a duvet - or perhaps a diversion ....................?