THINGS ARE NEVER JUST BLACK AND WHITE - THERE'S ROOM FOR COMPROMISE

White and black - the two swan species will never love each other but they are learning to co-exist

A SPIRIT of reconciliation seems to have broken out on Cleethorpes boating lake. 

Some of the 20-plus mute swans had been giving grief to the solitary black swan which is much smaller and which has flown here from  an ornamental waterfowl collection. 

There is still mutual suspicion (and possibly hostility) but the two species  have been managing to keep ill feelings  under their feathers.

Black swans are seldom seen in Cleethorpes - the last one at the boating lake thought to have been in 2012 - so this bird has become an attraction and a talking point. 

What graceful splendour - the bird glides across the water

Feeeding alongside the barnacle geese

A photographer lines up a shot of the enchanting bird