The female Mallard with three ducklings (having been present on the river for a week or so) was being escorted by a male today. Most of the drake Mallards have begun to moult into eclipse plumage. The female Goosander with the two ducklings was hauled out on a different rock today. Thankfully, the ducklings are now bigger than a Lesser Black-backed Gull's mouthful. Not so fortunate was a Woodpigeon predated by a Sparrowhawk at the entrance to the estate and reduced to discarded feathers. A fledged juvenile Stock Dove was with an adult along the riverside path.