Mute swans

I saw this lovely pair of mute swans today on the River Esk at Musselburgh. They were closely following each others movements and I was hoping to catch them forming a heart shape with their necks as they often do during their courtship..... but that wasn't to be!

I was delighted to see a pair of gadwall on the river too, such subtly beautiful ducks, though they were too far away to capture on camera. Meanwhile at the Lagoons, a male garganey had turned up (again too far away to capture on film, but a very rare sighting for me, actually I just checked and that's the first garganey I've ever seen!)

Plus swallows, house martins and swifts above the river and the trees full of birdsong.....