Saturday 24 September 2022

During a mid afternoon walk with Yori I found the brood with Red CCL and mate and they still had 4 cygnets. They were along the shoreline just N off the basin and the little bridge. In close to the shore and worried by seeing Yori.

No sign of the nest that was just N of here with the second and still unidentified pair of which the Cob is certainly unbanded. Presumably the eggs have now hatched and the family must have been driven off by the pair mentioned above (or lost?). I need to survey the whole perimeter of the lake.  

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