Some interesting sightings along the river today included the Nuthatch chicks still being fed in the nest (one of the adults chased off a Grey Squirrel which had climbed the nest tree), a brood of Great Spotted Woodpecker chicks calling from a hole in a Spanish Chestnut, a Wood Mouse digging in bare earth beside the path and three Mallards perched some 40 feet up in the branches of a Scots Pine tree.