Snake

[Jenks]

I came across this handsome little chap yesterday.




On Sunday I came across this pair.

[ovenpaa]

He is a good looking chap, was he enjoying some of our Spring sunshine?

[Jenks]

Yes I believe he was, He was laid on some sun warmed flagstones. I suspect his sojourn was brief though, because the heavens opened shortly after I left him. Interestingly I suspect I saw either his mum or Dad very close by last year. Unfortunately that was before I started carrying a little camera around in my pocket.

[Tony-c]

lovely!! blimey obviously I have led a sheltered naive life LOL, never seen anything like that in the UK

[DL.]

How did you cook the swan?

[Jenks]

Well, I have never cooked one but I found this:

SWAN. Pluck like a chicken or goose, scald, or boil; spit, skewer in four places, and roast with all its feet and beak, and leave the head unplucked; and eat with yellow pepper.

Item, if you wish, it may be gilded.

Item, when you kill it, you should split its head down to the shoulders.

Item, sometimes they are skinned and reclothed.

RECLOTHED SWAN in its skin with all the feathers. Take it and split it between the shoulders, and cut it along the stomach: then take off the skin from the neck cut at the shoulders, holding the body by the feet; then put it on the spit, and skewer it and gild it. And when it is cooked, it must be reclothed in its skin, and let the neck be nice and straight or flat; and let it be eaten with yellow pepper.

Think I'll stick to chicken

Jenks.

[DL.]

A friend from abroad has eaten swan, he tells me it was good.

[Chuck]

is it not illegal to kill and or eat a swan?

[Billett]

Yes, very much illegal

[Sixshot6]

I see no diamond so who knows if poisonous or not, worst case if bitten run to the nearest A&E. And yes it's pretty much very illegal to eat swans.