It is a crisp January afternoon and I am admiring the view across the Dunedas aquaduct looking at the woodlands beyond as the sun starts to set.
Two young swans - still with some of their juvenile grey feathers - rush by swimmng fast.
Hard on the youngster's feathery heels are two adults. Their wings arched up in full threat posture.
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| Arched wings. |
Once the juveniles are successfully chased around the curve and beyond what we can now assume is a boundary of the adults territory, they relax and turn around.
They quietly swim back across the narrow aquaduct and into the even narrower channel that leads to what is left of the old Somerset Coal Canal.
Hopefully, come the Spring this bonded-pair will make a nest and produce some cygnets of their own, which later in the year they will also chase away.
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