Yesterday, in London's Battersea Park, I thought there was not much wildlife on show. How wrong I was. Firstly I saw a Great Crested Grebe with a chick - barely visible and floating in the middle of the lake - long distance photographs are in another of my blog posts.
A little later on and further round the lake, I saw the amazing sight of a Mute swan with nine cygnets.
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| Female Mute swan with her nine cygnets |
Forming an orderly line at times, they followed mum across the lake.
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| Mute swan with line of 9 cygnets and being ignored by a Mallard |
They swam across to the edge of the lake, where a number of Mallards were waiting to greet them, or not! In reality, there were humans on the bank with unsuitable food for young cygnets. There they were joined by daddy Mute swan, who had appeared out of nowhere.
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| Male and female Mute swans with their cygnets |
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| 9 very cute cygnets |
Mum and dad at last decided that eating bread and being bothered by people hounding them in boats was not such a good idea and quickly paddled off with a group of accompanying Egyptian Geese.
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| Mute swans and their nine cygnets following a group of Egyptian geese |
They sailed round the shrubs and trees on the other side of the lake.
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| Mum Mute swan and cygnets follow dad Mute swan round the lake |
And off into the distance!
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| Mute swans and their cygnets disappear across the lake |
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