Spoiled swan

"I'm sorry Mr Duckpond Punter, but your bread just ain't good enough. Next time bring Organic Fairtrade 5-Grain Nuclear Free, laced with pond weed, or don't bother"

Amazing that swans, ducks and moorhens can be so fussy in such cold conditions - there was a thin layer of ice on the pond (in April!). At least one swan had plenty of energy as it spent the whole time chasing a goose by flying like an Ekranoplane up and down the pond.

With the weather being so cold during the whole of March and so late into Spring, it's enough to bring out all the confused global warming deniers. The 'intelligent' armchair scientists that mix up *local* weather with *global* average temperature...