Whooper Swans

This morning as we walked  from Monthooly Dookit up the Knoggan Brae and back round by Coburty, we were accompanied by constant small flights of whooper swans trumpeting as they flew over the howe and transforming a driech morning. There were groups of about 7 to 10 swans flying low, not appearing to be moving in any particular direction, some flew towards Aberdour House, others towards Peathill. I have never seen so many swans in flight, all were astonishingly beautiful and the effect was quite magical and dreamlike, especially in this the bleakest and most familiar patch of Buchan.