Shoppers have been treated to aspects of nature in its most beautiful and most brutal in the unlikely setting of the pond in Watford High Street.

A heron has taken up residence there once again this summer and is enjoying the scenery and the fish on offer.

Mother-of-two and keen photographer Mrs Ruth Nicolson-MacKenzie-Bedford of Chester Road, Watford, spotted the bird feeding and snapped this wonderful shot during her shopping trip.