Wildlife: Birdsters! May is here and we want to see your 'firsts'! :-), 1 by kennedyh

kennedyh wrote:
There were a few Black Swan Cygnus atrata about. One pair kept rising off the water and flying low pattering their feet on the water surface. I wondered whether the water was so still that they had difficulty taking off, but they did get free of the surface, but soon landed and repeated the performance. Maybe it was part of their mating ritual. They were never close enough for a good picture, but here is the nearest pair of black swans that we saw: