When we came back from holiday the first thing we noticed was our lovely coot sitting on her nest with this beautiful but powerful heron sitting on the weeping willow watching. He sat there for over 3 hours before he eventually flew away.
Luckily we haven't seen him since. Every day last week for 8 days another chick hatched until the clever mother and father had 8 gorgeous baby coots. They took it in turns to sit on the nest and seemed to feed constantly for 24 hours.
Unfortunately yesterday the 8 became 7
