Granny and the Jubilee bird watching walk

Granny arrived yesterday for the long weekend but mostly for M's birthday (which is on Jubilee Day).  This afternoon we went for a 'Jubilee bird watching walk' aka a stroll along the canal.  We wondered if we might see a pair of swans with some cygnets.  We didn't see any swans but we plenty of other water birds...


Mostly coots,




and coot chicks,







moorhens,




moorhen chicks,

and a few mallards (but no ducklings).



I think I've got those chicks the right way round!  We were reasonably confident at the time because of the nearby parents, but not 100% sure now.  K & Granny were keeping a tally of how many of each type they saw and M just wanted to make a note of the different types.  Later on I talked to K, after Granny had suggested it, about how you could make charts to show what you'd seen and the different sorts you might use: pie charts, bar graphs and pictographs (and showed her those examples).  She was interested, but I'm not sure yet if she was interested enough to want to do one either for the birds she saw or for something else.  We'll see.