Visitors.

This young heron came slowly past my bedroom patio door, paused and looked straight into my eyes. (Probably looking at its own reflection?) Then stalked on. After I had unfroze I grabbed the camera and snapped it as it passed the duck pond, ducks sitting firmly on top of the water and glaring at it!
Later that day it was posing on the car park when our guests arrived. They thought it was one of those resin garden ornaments - until it flew off.

It could well have been looking for a frog to eat. We have never seen any frogs here until recently when one was seen in the duck pond, then one in the compost heap, and even more extraordinary in one of the toilets. Inside. I said to Mike, "Can you remember what you have been eating?"