Can you tell what this is?

Lots of turtles.

Boy do I envy your having good places to walk. Turtles sunning themselves in a swamp/wetlands?

Looks like a branch with something.......not sure.....on it.

You are highly observant. Turtles eh...

I can only tell you it's a couple birds and their babies. What kind of bird, I don't know. Interesting species. I hope someone knows what kind it is.

@TheHorse Why is there a wire across there? Do you know what it is for?

Years ago I saw something similar when I was traveling back home from Albuquerque. I was following a friend (we'd gone in separate cars) and stopped at a nature preserve some 50 or so miles south of Albuquerque and saw a lot of turtles doing pretty much what those turtles are doing, sunning themselves on floating wood or what not, I remember trying to get photos of them but when they saw me they ran, literally. Turtles aren't that slow when they're frightened.

Turtles on a floating logs. That reminded a very old computer game for the Apple II "Frogger".

Right, plenty of turtles in the sun.

I cheated and enlarged it. Turtles!

I get some hiking during the summer holidays (May- June).

Is it a fallen tree on the water?

Turtles having fun in the sun.

Turtles having fun there ...

I love hiking but we still have bad weather here. I wanted to go todsy but it was rather cold.

Those look like baby turtles, on top of a piece of wood, that fell in the water.