On Wednesday we went back to Pennington Flash, no Kingfishers I'm afraid but we did see a Moor hen and lots of Heron's and some Tufted Ducks but the main attraction were the Swans.
We found an hide which was more sheltered from a bitter cold wind, even there my hands were frozen sorting the camera out. Nothing much was happening at first then these lovely swans flew in, they looked so regal in flight, they landed on the pond we were watching which was great and then swam in the to the Reeds near by.
Very nice we thought, then we saw another pair of Swans coming from another direction, these were swimming, not flying in, to every ones amazement in the hide the Swans in the reeds came out and head down wings thrown back they headed towards the other pair, it was amazing to see, so amazing I've tried in my photos to catch a few moments of what happened next.
The Swan seemed to walk on water at times , neck out stretched it sped towards the other pair and has we watched tried to make the other pair fly off the pond, my Husband said it was all about territory , to our relief it was all sorted out with out incident but the ones that flew in moved out eventually to another pond just next to this one. Mean while everyone in our hide was smiling and enjoying what we'd just witnessed It was fantastic. Goldie
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