A moorhen takes care of his newly hatched chicks in Shiheung City, Gyeonggi province, South Korea  Picture: EPA/KIM JAE-SUN

David Broughton writes: A moorhen with her two chicks in the floods at Godmanchester, Cambs. The nest was ultimately washed away, but the chicks survived and are little floating black bundles of fur.  Picture: David Broughton