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I feel a bit like Merlin Perkins on that old nature show. I skulk in bushes and behind hammocks, wide angling and long lensing on my little pink pocket Nikon. Well, you can see the results. A bit blurry, but there they are. This year's swan family, sailing in for a gander every day now...and for whatever reason, Nigel and Casey never bark at them. Well, would you?

Swaneeeeeeee River

Enchanting and somewhat disconcerting to be chatting away on the phone and spy a swan gaggle, passel, herd or whatever they like to be called when travelling in a group. They pass by several times a day and seem oblivious of the cold temps out there. Two of them have brown on them so they must be teenagers. It's going to be an interesting winter methinks.