Supporting Swans
By Ron Rybs
@Ronrybs (21497)
London, England
March 21, 2016 9:38am CST
As part of the morning walk, I went along to 'Little Britain' lake for a sit and watch. As it was a fairly bright morning, I thought there would be a fair amount of birds floating about, but it was rather quiet, and there were only a pair of ducks near me.
As I walked around the lake, I came across a couple of people who were feeding the birds. There were plenty of swans, geese and ducks. Now I knew where they all were. The ducks I had seen earlier hadn't got the message about the free meal!
The people were wearing jackets with the legend Swan Support on the back. They weren't applying the rules too rigidly judging by the numbers of non-swans tucking in.
I didn't know this happened at the lake and I am guessing they drop off food at other places as well, which may account for all the birds in the area.
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@TiarasOceanView (70020)
• United States
21 Mar 16
What a nice surprise all the sorts of water foul Ron!
You had to hunt a bit for them.
Nice they feed them.
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@TiarasOceanView (70020)
• United States
21 Mar 16
@Ronrybs The swans are so lovely Ron..have pics of the ones I took in England when my son was small there..if I could scan them.
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@Ronrybs (21497)
• London, England
21 Mar 16
@TiarasOceanView As so many people use the canal path, the swans don't mind folks walking close by. Unless they have young, then there can be some hissing
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@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
21 Mar 16
That's nice. Always fun to see ducks and swans. There's now an environment thing about not feeding ducks because we are "ruining" them.
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@teamfreak16 (43586)
• Denver, Colorado
21 Mar 16
I love going to feed ducks and geese. Never fed a swan, though.
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