Spring is in the air.

The rest of this rather beautiful courtship sequence can bee seen here.

What is rather puzzling is that this cob, known as the Park Bully, has a long term mate  on another pond - an hour after I took these shots I saw him with his mate building a nest on the little island where they hatch their young every year. This is not the first time we have seen him come down to make advances to his mistress. I always believed that mute swans were monogamous.