Liz and I walked along the River Arun and found a bunch of swans. We think they may be the hoard that used to live in the harbour area, near the RNLI station and along pier road...
There appeared to be a family - with last years' offspring in tow.
Many of them still had traces of grey cygnet plumage...
More swans lay ahead...
One swan swam between the two bunches of swans - all mute swan. For Covid reasons, I had been unable to get to Arundel WWT more than once in the past 12 months - so seeing so many swans was a delight.
Further along, yet another bunch greeted us!
Around the corner, even more swans greeted us - but these were in a field. Liz counted 26, but I counted 29.
Alas, they were too distant to tell if they were mute swans or Bewick....
That's a lot of swans. I wonder if their population increased because there were fewer people.
ReplyDeleteprobably just seasonal...or they moved from the harbor at littlehampton where they used to hang....or...
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