Wednesday, 31 March 2021

Seeing Eye To Eye

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                       In spite of adverse weather now coming in from the North, Slim and Sue are in full mating mode.  Heavy  overnight rai...
Monday, 29 March 2021

Spring Tides

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 Slim and Sue have been busy nest building, ready for another season.  This week heralds Spring tides almost swamping the Swans island. In a...
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Thursday, 25 March 2021

True Togetherness

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Was fortunate enough to catch Slim and Sue flying in the other day. Also a more intimate moment too.  The sound of our heaviest bird in flig...
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Wednesday, 24 March 2021

Ducks Killed

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Yet again irresponsible dog owners are allowing their dogs to kill nesting ducks on the riverside ! In spite of the fact that there are sign...
Friday, 19 March 2021

Spring Equinox - Nesting

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                    It's a year to the day since Sue and Slim arrived in the river looking for a nest site.  Today they have ventured ba...
Monday, 15 March 2021

Peace At Last

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 Slim and Sue were patrolling the river with wings up this morning, no sign of the last cygnet today. Looks like they have taken the final s...
Friday, 12 March 2021

Disco Starts Nesting

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The Trust disabled duck Disco has started nesting again. She has chosen a new nesting site and so far has laid 3 eggs, we should get a brood...
Tuesday, 9 March 2021

Hotel Swan

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UPDATE : SPCA and Hotel checked the pond today, and Swan seems to have manged to get out, all's well. Reports of a Swan in the Golf View...
Saturday, 6 March 2021

Last Cygnet

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Today marks 9 months since the last cygnets were hatched, incredibly one of them is still in the river with Slim and Sue.  Although chased o...
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Tuesday, 2 March 2021

Trust Ducks - Donnie And Disco

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The beautiful early spring weather is already prompting the birds into mating mode.  The Swans have been mating several times already, and D...
Thursday, 25 February 2021

No Place Like Home

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Seems like one of the Cygnets prefers being at home with Mum and Dad , rather than the big scary world outside the river.  Slim and Sue have...
Sunday, 21 February 2021

A Taste Of Spring

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Slim and Sue are wasting no time bonding, a day after expelling the cygnets from their home territory.  The weather was positively spring li...
Friday, 19 February 2021

Cygnets Expelled

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Has been a long time in coming, but Sue and Slim have finally cut the apron strings from the cygnets. On the same day I had Briget taken to ...
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