We went to Sheffield Park to walk around the gardens this morning. It was great...little bits of rain interspersed with sunshine...until a monsoon-like downpour had us stuck under a copse of trees.
It was there that we witnessed a really angry swan chasing some Canadian geese off his pond and away from his family of cygnets.
It lasted about an hour as he chased them all over the park from the top pond right down to the bottom pond and back again.
All eventually settled down with the geese in the bottom pond and the swans in the top.
Brought out the action photographer in hubby :-) Pity I can't up load all of the pics...
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| The calm before the storm, before papa swan got himself all bent out of shape |
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| Run! |
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| Taking a breather |
The geese were sauntering back over the bridge, not realising papa swan was still preening himself on the other side of the gunnera.
Hehe...when they realised he was there, they hightailed it outta there really quickly in opposite direction...but too late...he spotted them.
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| All hell broke lose again as he chased them everywhere...even into the bushes! |
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| Finally...it was calm again |
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