Postcard from Lake Bled

Images from an early morning stroll around Lake Bled in the mist and drizzle.

 

There are many young mallard ducks

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and more. It's that time of year.

A sign showing the many things that should not be done at the Lake Bled rowing centre

Other things that also should not be done (the two signs are a few feet apart)

The Lake Bled Olympic rowing centre - where many things cannot be done.

More indications of the mystical Capricorn or Zlatorog with the golden...

And here is one on the side of the Villa

There were lots of interesting birds in the woodlands around the lake. I could hear several cuckoos calling (but could not see them) and there were also great tits and others of the tit family, chaffinches, greenfinches, many blackbirds, grey and pied wagtails and, out on the lake, mute swans, lots of mallards and some meergansers.

Most birds spotted my camera and dived for cover (or underwater) but here is a pair of distant common meergansters (one of the sawbill diving ducks) which were sitting far out in the lake. And you can just make out that the male has a white body with a dark green head and the female a cinnamon head. They may have had chicks with them they were too far out to see.

I will try to do better.