With Valentine's day around the corner, two cranes are shrugging off the winter blues and proving to everybody spring is just around the corner.
Despite icy cool temperatures recently this pair of cranes at WWT Slimbridge Wetland Centre are getting a head start on the usual spring mating season.
The pair, called Bart and Ruby, were released as chicks in Somerset as part of the Great Crane Project.
They nested last summer at WWT Slimbridge Wetland Centre but failed to rear a chick.
From the look of these pictures taken on a day with temperatures close to zero though they are wasting no time trying again this year.
Regularly the striking birds perform dramatic flypasts in the skies above the famous nature reserve and lively dancing displays in front of the hides.
Cranes, which are the largest and loudest species of UK bird, are making a comeback in the UK and WWT Slimbridge is one of the best spots to see them in the wild.
