Right in the heart of Cardiff Bay can be found the lightship and beneath the bow of the ship on a makeshift pallet a pair of swans have nested for a number of years.
Some facts 2010:
Jim who passes the site on a daily basis informed me that he had first photographed 3 eggs on the nest on the 10th April.
There had been total of 11 eggs at one stage, at the beginning of the week there were 8 eggs, but one egg had disintegrated and another had been removed from the nest, as shown in the painting above, on Wednesday 19th May.
Does anyone know if this is a common practise of swans to disregard an egg and why it is done?
Saturday 24th May ... late afternoon the second half of Cardiff Bluebirds play off match at Wembley was underway
I arrived to find quite a crowd of all ages looking down at the swans on this hot afternoon. I soon established that under her wing was a signet, that had recently hatched.
Sure enough as she lifted herself to turn the eggs something she will have done on a regular basis over the last month ... clearly to all to view was the very young signet ... what a nice day to leave the egg ... with the afternoon sun beating down to welcome the new addition.
The next time she rose and twisted her neck to carefully turn the eggs with her beak it also became clear that a further two eggs were displaying cracks ... and all looked on anticipating how long it would be be before that there would be some potential new additions?
That was the question .... how long would it be before these two young swan would be released from their shells of protection ... and still further would she see all six eggs spring into bundles of new life?
That question I hope to answer in forthcoming posting!
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