They's all great!!!

Great landscapes and wildlife everyone...

 

Jess, there is no context for the subject. I did say Nature in all it's forms, and giving birth has gotta be one of the fundamentals of the nature of living things... I thought it was a great pic and it certainly said nature to me...  I've left it in the album, I hope you change your mind...

 

I spent yesterday afternoon down by the river Stour at Mistley quey where there is a large population of swans. I had planned on going further up the river but it was so nice there I ended up staying till it got too dark...

 

This is a "Black Swan" and comes from New Zealand. There are six of them here living with the local population of a couple of hundred "Mute Swans". There are two pairs and two signets. So, just goes to show that black and white can live together...

 

One of the local Mute swans showing off...

 

Cheeky pigeon, waiting to cash in on the swans dinner...

 

This sweet lady feeds the swans, I think she said twice a day and has been doing it every day for the last 3 years. We had a good conversation and she told me the history of the swans here. Apparently the swans have been here for about two hundred years. They came here because of the plentiful food from the waste grain from the two maltings that opperated on this bank of the river. Foourteen years ago one of the maltins closed, then three years ago the second malting house was banned from pumping thier waste into the river. That year over a hundred swans died as there is not enough food in the river to sustain such a lage flock. So, since then she has been feeding them. The local council are trying to get her to stop feeding them but she still carries on. I'll try to find out more about this, maybe the council have good reason.