Feeding The Swans At Windsor

[poliphilo]

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[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

what a lovely picture!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Thanks

[puddleshark.livejournal.com]

That is a stunning picture!

And all those swans belong to her maj, right?

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

Yes, That's right.

[sovay]

Feeding The Swans At Windsor

That's really lovely.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Looks like a painting.

Beautiful.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Looks like a painting.

I saw it as a vintage postcard. But, yes.

[veronica-milvus.livejournal.com]

And I once lived a couple of minutes stroll from there.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Nice.

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

I love the Windsor swans! I haven't been there for a few years.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

This was my first visit- ever.

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

Can't the Queen afford her own birdseed?

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It's shocking how little she gets paid.

[ooxc.livejournal.com]

except the swans that don't - the Queen's blokes go out with the Vintners' and Dyers' blokes to divvy them up.
"During the ceremony, the Queen's, Vintners' and the Dyers' Swan Uppers row up the river in skiffs. Swans caught by the Queen's Swan Uppers under the direction of the Swan Marker are unmarked, except for a ring linked to the database of the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO). Those caught by the Dyers' and Vintners are identified as theirs by means of a further ring on the other leg."