And so the cycle starts again.....

Well, they weren't there yesterday, so they must have been hatched overnight - in all that rain. Again we have five fluffy little bundles scudding around the pond - working straight out of the box (so to speak). This year I'm going to give them names and make a really big effort to try and tell them apart. Even on day one we seem to have four conformists and one that wants to do it's own thing. This was the case last year, but the non-conformist was the first to be taken by Mr.Fox.
Hopefully a long hot summer ahead of them.
But I now know that in 10 months' time, the currently doting parents will be chasing them away..

..but there is a lot of water to flow under the bridge until then. And a lot of blips.