Adorable pictures show swans and their cygnets nesting and swimming in the Water of Leith

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Now, the adorable sight of swans and their cygnets nesting and gliding across the Water of Leith has been captured.

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Mike Wade, a reporter for The Times, posted his photographs of the swans and their young on Friday with the caption: “Leith arrivals.”

The swans were spotted nesting and swimming under the Commercial Street bridge by The Shore in Leith.

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