Jacqueline and Ryan's Photography

07/05/2026

Saw Pedro and Poppy today at Kiltonga this morning ❤️🦢❤️🦢❤️

28/04/2026

Today at Kiltonga, Poppy still with dad Pedro. ❤️🦢❤️

02/04/2026

This morning at Kiltonga ❤️ 🦢

31/03/2026

This morning at Kiltonga. Poor Pedro built a nest but Penny's not here 😢 .

18/03/2026

Today at Kiltonga, Pedro is very protective of Poppy his daughter.
I see all the Greylags have started coming back to kiltonga, as if they know theres no other nesting birds are close by. But Pedro is on the warpath with them, he's chased or killed other geese coming into kiltonga before that's why they all left, but that's nature for you.

16/03/2026

Today at Kiltonga, saw Poppy and Pedro ❤️🦢❤️

24/02/2026

04/01/2026

Today out and about in Ards and Comber

03/01/2026

Hi all, my friend Michele Hillen lost her sunglasses at the duck pond :(Kiltonga,she is gutted as they are prescription and need them for driving, if anyone down that way and finds them, would u please please give me a shout, black Raybans. Much appreciated...

07/12/2025

They say swans mate for life but no one tells you they remember kindness for life, too.

Most people think of swans as elegant, distant, untouchable.
But long-term wildlife research has revealed something quietly extraordinary:
Swans can remember human faces — and they especially remember the gentle ones.

Scientists studying wild swan populations found that these birds not only recognize individual people… they respond differently based on past experiences.
A stranger gets wary glances, stiff feathers, maybe a warning hiss.
But someone who once fed them patiently, spoke softly, or simply walked by with kindness?

That person becomes a memory.

Swans approach familiar humans with slow, graceful head bobs — a whisper of greeting in their own language. Their feathers loosen. Their posture softens. Some even let out a quiet, low “huff” that researchers describe as a friendly murmur.

And the trust goes deeper.

In multiple studies across Europe, swans were observed guiding their cygnets — their fragile, precious babies — closer to humans they judged safe.
For a wild animal, this is one of the highest signs of acceptance.
It means:
“I remember you. I feel safe with you. My family is safe with you.”

It turns out swans carry memories the way they carry their young protectively, carefully, with surprising tenderness.
And sometimes, without knowing it, a person becomes part of that gentle world simply by being kind.