On Friday the fully recovered male swan was reunited with his brood of five cygnets on the River Kennet. |
Father, mother and two cygnets were released back on to the lower lake at The Lawns in December. |
Goslings graze with their parents out of the water whereas swans teach cygnets in the water to be aquatic feeders. |
They saw an injured female swan and wondered why the male was not protecting its cygnets. |
We have a breeding pair of swans on North Bradley lake and for the last two years all of their cygnets have been taken by foxes. |
When the eggs hatched, the mother swan paraded with her six grey cygnets in the bay in front of our house. |