Yes, I can hardly believe it either. The sun actually deigned to visit the UK today, and even stayed a short while. The start of the day wasn't promising. Overcast, and gloomy. This cormorant (the only photo of one today) was photographed at ISO 3200. While it's fairly noisy full size, the quality is surprisingly adequate when scaled down.
The sun appeared during the morning and stayed for most of the day. There were black-headed gulls (and a blue sky).
Greylag geese grazing the shallows…
A coot, in reflective mood…
Lastly, a pair of frisky white ducks :love: 
To close a very short clip from the trail cam, caught during the day. The pigeons were all unharmed :yikes:
Camera note: all shots taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens. Video from the Bushnell Trophy Cam HD.
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We've seen coots in Mexico, too 😀
Nice shots, Words … I'd celebrate, too. Our weather has been dreich for a month.
Chasing pigeons at that range – you'd think they'd know, but they often try.
A temporary patch of blue sky found its way to Hastings, too, where it caused some alarm. It's grey and rainy and quite normal now though.
so that's what a coot looks like~ thought they looked like my dad because my mom always called him "you old coot"!! lol /.. no idea what she meant by that. some old southern term.
dW, weather is still very mixed up here, but at least it feels like winter at the moment (which is better than it feeling like winter in June).
Darko, these birds get everywhere!
Adele, sometimes I'm amazed they catch anything at all, but this was clearly just a bit of fun, not a serious attempt. Hastings must have been good this morning.
Kathy, we have 'bald as a coot' as well. The term comes from that white featherless shield on the top of their head.
I see, well, daddy never balded so the evil woman never had a chance with that phrase lol!