The return of the swans

[dianeduane]

Swans have nested in the little pond behind our house for at least fifty years...perhaps longer. In 2005, one of the pair who'd been coming back to nest every spring suddenly died of natural causes (old age, the local vet thought). His or her mate -- no way to tell which it was; swans are tough to sex -- stayed on the pond for months, returning again and again to the spot where it had last seen its mate alive. It returned last year, too, still looking for its counterpart.

This year it seems not to have come back. But two youngsters have arrived. Here's a minute of video courtesy of YouTube: Swan Trek, theNext Generation...

 

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[wolfette]

In Holyrood Park, at St Margaret's Loch, there have always been swans....

but at the moment there must be 30 or so swans in one tiny "duckpond" barely 100 metres long. Plus a whole flock of geese, numbering over 50 (see my post of a few days ago when they held up the traffic for 10 minutes crossing the road to graze).