Looks like one of them's got a cob on!
Or maybe, Swan Lake gone wrong!
A testosterone fuelled fight between two male Mute Swans (Cygnus olor). There was a female with young off to the right.
I heard these two fighting from a couple of hundred yards away, with the thumping, thudding sounds of their wings, and a vicious encounter it was, lasting for quite a few minutes.
The shot was taken beside the River Sow in Doxey Marshes nature reserve in Stafford. The reserve is the property of Staffordshire Wildlife Trust.
Looks like one of them's got a cob on!
Or maybe, Swan Lake gone wrong!
A testosterone fuelled fight between two male Mute Swans (Cygnus olor). There was a female with young off to the right.
I heard these two fighting from a couple of hundred yards away, with the thumping, thudding sounds of their wings, and a vicious encounter it was, lasting for quite a few minutes.
The shot was taken beside the River Sow in Doxey Marshes nature reserve in Stafford. The reserve is the property of Staffordshire Wildlife Trust.