Last week we had Grey herons at Cardiff’s Roath Park Lake; this week we have another member of the heron family, two of them in fact, gorgeous Little egrets (Egretta garzetta).

In Britain these days, if you’re lucky, you can see three white egrets, Cattle, Little and Great white, but I still find these birds exotic.

And, although I feature them here relatively frequently, I make no apology for that, as they are beautiful birds.

I find Little egrets quite mesmerising to watch, and I’m certainly not the only one. Despite these beauties being quite common at Roath Lake these days, several other people stopped to watch and pulled out their phones to take photos, so I imagine the egrets were featuring on social media that day.