Black Swans

 BLACK SWANS

 

It is many months since I last recorded bird sightings. The weather has been wet and cold and there has been little bird life to see. I could walk most days and not take a single photograph. 

 

 

The last weeks have changed. The bush has come alive once again.

 

 

And the swans are back. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well we think the male swan is back. Has he a new new partner? A number of keen watchers think it is a new female. She seems smaller and finer than the female of 2020. She also has  a distinctive skin tag on her beak. Unless the mother of 2020 has had an accident and lost some weight, this is a different partner.

 

 

 

 

There are four grey signets, happily following the adults around the lake and around the grassy, still damp, fairways of the golf course.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So good to see two years in a row.