The white swan - with its long,graceful neck - is among the most beautiful of birds.
VOA: special.2010.04.11
Consequently, over the past week, inhabitants of villages and parts of London under the Heathrow flight path could hear the birds singing on these beautiful spring days, not obscured by the cacophony of planes overhead.
The scene was blissfully beautiful: a placid expanse of water with patches of lotuses floating here and there, birds swooping and settling, children splashing, adults wading with fishing nets.