Well it is bad news, the swans we saw on Saturday are the swans we have been feeding the last few months, So yes they have lost 2 of their cygnets, They looked better today but still a little sad, the mother swan was looking around as if she was expecting the lost cygnets to come back.
We where hoping that they had paired up with other swans but Louise did some searching and found out that the young swans can stay with their parents for about 2 years.

Tags: Swans, Cygnets

We think we have had some bad news today, The swans we have been feeding over the last six months or so and then watching them nesting and having three cygnets, Well we haven’t seen them for about two weeks. Then today we saw two swans and a cygnet on the canal, When we got to them we looked at the ring number and we think it read Y126 which is the number of the female swan we have been feeding, but they didn’t react the same as they have done in the past in-fact they didn’t look very well at all and what’s worse is that they only had one cygnet with them, so that means they must of lost two off them,we had got really attached to the swans so this has upset us both. We are hoping we will see them tomorrow and we will check the number again just to make sure.
The photo top left was taken on the 24/5/08 and was one of the cygnets first outings,
The photo top right was taken on the 22/6/08 and the last one of them all together,
The bottom two photos where taken today, the female swan and her remaining cygnet.

Tags: Swans, Cygnets

Here is another photo of Horace while we where out walking him.

Tags: Dog

We made another raised bed last week and this week we put in 720ltrs of compost and planted the veg that we where growing in the greenhouses, We have to put mesh round the frames to stop the neighbours cats from using then as luxury litter trays. We have got sweet corn, spinach, letuce, sprouts, tomatoes, beetroot and probably something else. We also got a Bluberry bush too.

Tags: Garden

On our morning walk we heard some squeaking noise, it sounded a bit like a bird, We couldn’t see anything at first then I spotted something moving, I couldn’t get the right words out and ended up say to Louise babies babies and pointing to the other side of the canal, We looked though our binoculars and where convinced that we saw 2 baby otters running around playing.

Tags: Otters