I celebrated my birthday with a tram ride to Highfields for a take-away latte and a wander alongside the lake. It was a bit chilly but the trees offered some shelter. The majority of birds were black headed gulls with Canada and Egyptian geese, swans, a pied wagtail, some common pochard, tufted ducks and mallard, coot and moorhen, three male goosanders, a little egret and some cormorants. This juvenile mute swan posed nicely for me on the thin ice.