Showing posts with label flight. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flight. Show all posts

Tuesday, 8 January 2013

Beautiful Birds


Our three cygnets gave me quite a show today, I thought briefly they were on their way to a new life, when they started to take off from the river ! These beautiful birds showed their massive 2 metre wingspan in unison, and what a great sight as they ran along the surface ready for take off ! 



It turned out they were just playing around, and landed 50 metres up river then started to bathe ! Popeye and Penny, sat on the island and let the cygnets please themselves, they are in no hurry to chase them off but keep pecking them ready to perform the final act ! 


These pics show one of the reasons why we have formed the Trust - Having these beautiful birds in perpetuity on our river, so that everyone can enjoy sights like these !