Today's exercise walk was a 90 minute wander around my home square. The highlight was two Swifts displaying below rooftop height along Arbroath Avenue. Otherwise, there were a couple of broods of Mallard ducklings on the river (not new), two juvenile Goosanders (which I am assuming were locally reared), a few Common Blue Damselfies over Rosshall Park Pond and dozens of people where there would normally be only a handful. A noise absent from the back garden today is the sound of Blue Tit nestlings begging for food, confirming that the brood must have fledged first thing. This evening, two bats were flying between Moulin Estate and the river (in broad daylight) while a Red Fox worked its way along the river bank.