A spot of "Baaaa-rilliant" luck

With my trip to Bempton Cliffs looming large on the calendar and Spring having rapidly sprung a multitude of baby birds, I decided to spend Friday evening at my local nature reserve catching up with the heron chicks and checking to see if the swans had had their cygnets yet. Despite the balmy weather, there was very little action on the bird front - the herons appearing to have fledged already and the swans were busy napping on their nest in the twilight. There was not a gosling to be goggled at and even the otter obviously had better things to do than perform for my D3.

Though I was prepared to be patient to get my pictures, the sun decided to call it a night too so I packed up my kit and trudged dejectedly back to the car. Just as everything was stowed safely in the boot, a family of sheep wandered into view, the sun decided to give me one last chance and streamed deliciously upon them (delicious in the cute sense, I wasn't quite at the stage of thinking of them in the "mint sauce" sense) and I was lucky enough to capture some endearing shots of the lambs and their mum. Hope ewe like the picture!