Hello Hello Hivians and silver bloggers alike
How has your week been progressing?
Mine has been pretty good so far and I thought I would write today about how nature gave me some thoughts on a recent walk. Being Wednesday I will join into the #wednesdaywalk from the wonderful 
The pictures that you see will be from Raith Lake in the Kingdom of Fife in Scotland and they are all taken by me.
A few weeks ago, I saw a pair of mute swans and wondered if they would be breeding. Well my wonderings were answered.
You can see that the mother to be is sitting on her nest. The nest is in the water and the shoreline is quite secluded so this pair of swans are much more wild that Susie and Stevie Swan their cousins in my local park.
I have called this pair Sylvia and Sandy, you will see that have allowed a young cygnet who was born I guess last year to hang around which is quite unusual.
Eventually Sylvia heard my calls and came for a closer look.
Once she realised that there was food then she was chowing down like there is no tomorrow. You can see the little brown pellets of swan food that I buy for them in the water.
Then she came up to say hello once she realised who I was.
She was looking very lean, so I will make a point of going up there on Friday to feed her more. The lake used to be a fishery until last year so I wonder if there less food going round in the ecosystem.
One thing they do here, is tag the swans, and you can see Sylvia's tag in the next picture.
When I saw Sylvia in her nest I noticed feathers on her beak, she must have been preening herself and why not, a lady always needs to look her best for me 🤣
That was such a cute picture of her, see Zac 
When swans eat, they take water in with their food, to digest it easier, so the feathers washed away and left her with a clean beak after she had eaten.
While Sylvia was getting fed by me, she had left her nest, and the elder cygnet was looking a bit bemused, it was as if he did not know what he should be doing!
The coast is clear he thought, but wait a minute, I better check the contests of the nest!
So this got me to thinking about our nest eggs.
How are you building yours?
Of course, as part of Hive we are extremely lucky in that we have Hive Backed Dollars HBD and we now have the ability to save them with an insane 20.00% APR that rate being the current rate defined by the Witnesses.
In addition to that HBD, we can wrap some HBD and farm it for more rewards, check this post pHBD-USDC for further details.
Then we have the airdrops that are on the Hive blockchain.
Talking of airdrops, have you all claimed your May share of LARYNX , you can either do via the website directly or check out the How to CLaim LARYNX - Step by Step Tutorial
I have been various things on the Hive blockchain and been ignoring my other chain investments for the time being.
How have you been building your nestegg recently?
Once Sylvia was back on her nest and the elder cycgnet was watching, who comes back to see what the hoohaa was all about? Yep you guessed it Sandy, he had been MIA, which was all fine and dandy as it meant there was more food for Sylvia.
I did however feed Sandy and his son from last year!
Now that new life is on its way, Sandy is much more on guard than before, do you see how his wings are up, ready for fight mode, they can be quite mean if they don't know you or feel threatened!
This is view from the Swan family's waterfront property, pretty damn good view is you ask me!
Then it was time for the wander home.
Someone had been feeding the birds I think, whenever I see these, I am reminded of a coconut bra!
Of course nature is amazing and there is #alwaysaflower so whilst thinking of 
Being Scotland what a fitting way to end this post with some bonnie bluebells!
All images captured by me with my Canon Powershot SX70HS Bridge camera or my Android smartphone and ramblings are from me, the mad Scotsman @TengoLoTodo unless otherwise stated.
Haste Ye Back!