Not a summer made...

One swallow, they say, does not a summer make.

I disagree; summer is here and well advanced. The growing season seems to have accelerated and we're less than a month from solstice.

This fellow was taking a rest beside a field at the rivers edge at Slimbridge. It being May the summer walkway is open and we took Ivy for a long and slightly breezy wander into the long grasses.

I did of course try for a swallow in flight, but I needed far more patience than anyone can have with an energetic nearly four year old by their side!