Bird-watching

We went to Cesis, the nearby town, to have some fun there in playgrounds. After enjoying our time in the playground, we rested at the nearby pond and observed the birds there: a black swan family, some seagulls, some ducks and lots of pigeons that kept coming so close to us we could almost touch them with our hands.

The black swans family is living in a special shelter built for them by the caretakers of the park, because their nest was being troubled too much by curious observers. It was interesting to see that the kids of black swans are not black - they are light gray and so cutely fluffy! :)

Ducks have lived in this pond forever! Sometimes we take some bread along with us for feeding them. But seagulls were new visitors we hadn't seen there before. Probably they have flown in from the seashore, which is some 50 km away. This makes us wonder - why have they flown in so far away from the sea?