Come and walk with me along the river. I’ve been keeping an eye on several nests on the river during my daily walk. You might remember this goose nest from a zoom in zoom out pairing
Last week I noticed she was no longer on the nest and guessed that her eggs had hatched and earlier this week I saw her with 4 goslings
quite relaxed with them on the grass near people and other birds. I saw them again yesterday on the island in the river
I’ve also been watching two swan nests – the one of the same island as this goose and another
this nest is near where I first saw the goslings and when I glanced over at the nest the swan was standing up and I saw that her eggs had hatched recently and there were cygnets in the nest – you can even see some egg shell in the bottom photo
yesterday I realised just how lucky I was to see the cygnets as she was back sitting on the nest and all the cygnets are hidden beneath her
I love to see the chicks and will be keeping an eye out as more hatch (while still counting the swans – 58 on the river yesterday and a big group out on the firth – too far away to count.
