I searched through the files and found a trusty old faithful but I love it, so for Rob's Alt #BirdOfTheDay theme of #Ducklings, here are Mama Mallard and some of herb family crossing a path at Chartwell. Hurry up children.

A mother Mallard shepherds three of her brood of ducklings across an amber coloured gravel path as a human mum approaches with her own two children, one in a front-loading sling, the other walking by her side. It is a sunny summers' day at Chartwell National Trust in Kent, once the home of Winston Churchill. Camera: iPhone 11 Pro.