Cute Coots and a Sitting Swan

I should have included these photos from Inverleith Park in yesterday's blogpost. The coots have had chicks and they're adorably scruffy little things

and the swans are sitting on eggs

It looked earlier last week as if two pairs of swans were nesting but this pair are quite aggressive towards the other pair - here is the male showing off

Just after this photo this swan waddled over the boardwalk then flew over to the other side of the pond and chased the other pair of swans round and round. I'm not sure that the other pair will be successful in raising young this year if they're going to be constantly harrassed! It's a tricky place to raise young anyway as there are so many people around passing very close to the nests.

Thanks to Crafty Green Boyfriend for the photos in this post

You can read more about yesterday's walk (and all the beautiful rhododendrons in Edinburgh Botanics) here .