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Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Monday, December 27, 2010
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Two Swans A'Fighting...
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I witnessed a tremendous mud wrestling match at low tide last week with two swans trying their darnedest to kill each other. They spent a long while between sodden flapflapping locked beak to pinion as illustrated above. Finally after having been nearly drowned head first in the Thames ooze, the weaker one escaped upriver.
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... and a heron hunched amongst the reeds.
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