Tales from the riverbank
Mar 09, 2022
2 minutes
Lucy Baring
A PAIR of teenage swans has taken up residence on the river outside the kitchen window, brown, ungainly, eating weed. One of them glides towards the heron that is staring down from the bank. They both flap their tail feathers in a protracted face off until the swan gets bored and drifts away.
The nuthatch hurtles full pelt at the bird feeder,
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