We've a pair of swans with a nest by the Stort a couple of hundred yards from us, who come back and raise a batch of cygnets every year. The pen sits on the eggs a whole month or more, all weathers and no food.

The cob cruised around on the Stort nearby, regularly terrorising a duck he'd taken a dislike to. No animosity to the other ducks. Or there was a pair of Canada geese who drove him wild. I think they enjoyed his charging attacks, just hopping out often way and looking at him from the bank.

Or he'd standing the path blocking pedestrians, or having a go at the occasional dog. He's normally quite a placid swan - I think this was him being an anxious Dad.

When the brood hatched the swans shepherded them on te water as they learned to manage swimming for a couple of days, then the whole family cleared off down the Stort to a quieter part, as they do every year.   

The geese are having a more relaxed time now Mr Swan has gone, and they brought along their own brood of goslings the other day, to show them off as it were.