Cygnets

[altariel]

There was a swan-family on the river today near Trinity Hall: mum, dad, and eight little fuzzy things. After a brief preen near the punt station, they made their way across the breadth of the river in a most determined convoy. Punts had to stop for them. Excessively cute.

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[ithilwen.livejournal.com]

During my cytopathology fellowship, I lived by a lake that was home to a large flock of Canada geese. Whenever I walked by, they'd come running over to be fed - and then hiss at me once they'd eaten the bread crusts I'd saved for them. Nervy buggers! Absolutely no sense of gratitude...

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

White geese are even worse. One of the colleges where I studied was built round three sides of a square. The fourth side was the lake edge. In nesting season, you couldn't even walk into the square without having white geese rush at you, hissing with wings spread and beaks outstretched. You ran.

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[altariel.livejournal.com]

I got mugged by squirrels once in St James's Park.

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

That would be one heck of an epitaph.

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[altariel.livejournal.com]

And it would be just my luck to go that way.