The sun is only a couple of feet over the horizon but I can already feel it's heat on my neck. I'm fishing for Pike, Perch and Zander on the old mill pool in Tewksbury. Thanks to the low sun the colours this morning are vivid bringing out the different shades of green on the rushes and lily pads. The pinks of the purple toad flax next to me, the almost identical pink of the great willowherb, the yellows of the mustard and Brandy bottle water lilies flowers.
Crows are cawing to each other nearby, gulls are congregating on the recently mowed ham field behind. . A warbler , I think, flitted across the water into some reedmace earlier on. Pigeons are sitting spaced apart on various parts of the Old Mill House , peeking over , welcoming the new day. A swan and five large cygnets are dabbling away opposite me, a moorhen trots over the lilies to my right and little fluffy balls follow her... must be her second brood of chicks. A heron just called quite far off to my right. A coarse rasping call. I admire the red tinged flowers of the reed near me, hoverflies and bees are buzzing around near them. In fact there's a lot of insect activity all around this morning, probably due also to the recent very hot weather. Earlier a swallow zoomed past close to me and mallards dawdled nearby. I'm not having any bites on my rod so far might be that the dead bait is from last night and has gone off a bit. Or could be that no pike or Zander has passed it or smelt it yet. Sparrows Twitter on the old Tudor houses opposite me.
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