salmotrutta – Page 7

A family meal out!

With the sunny weather the insects have plenty of flowers to feed on – in this case an Oxeye Daisy.

Winter casualties.

Sadly the local pair of Herons fell foul to the more severe winter and frozen water,
others will probably eventually move in. Meanwhile the Cygnets will hopefully have a better chance of survival!

A Sand Martin ‘fly fishing’ …..

….. a good sign for the trout!

Cygnets – the fluffy five!

The Corby cygnets are still being kept well out of telephoto lens range, meanwhile on a nearby water these five were happy to oblige! At barely a week old they are already ‘out and about’!

Natures gold!

The Whins (Gorse bushes) are blooming around the Loch filling the air with the scent of Coconut. The flowers although used for culinary and medicinal purposes have to be used with caution as they contain small amounts of toxic alkaloids!

The Swan family 2023.

They appeared out of the far rush on Monday and and are keeping to the far side of the Loch, but it looks like six Cygnets this year.

Are you looking at me!?

This Lapwing appears to take exception to being photographed!

Blossom time.

There are hundreds of flowering Cherry trees in the City and …..

….. every year this particular tree grows bigger with more intense blossoms.