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Saturday 20 September 2008

Drumaness, County Down

Drumaness, County Down
(Photographs of Ireland)
Swans and their cygnets in Drumaness mill pond.

"The stately-sailing swan
Gives out his snowy plumage to the gale,
And, arching proud his neck, with oary feet
Bears forward fierce, and guards his osier-isle,
Protective of his young."
James Thomson 1700-1748