The video shows two beautiful black swans in Peasholm Park, Scarborough, who are so much in love during their mating season that they create a perfect heart shape with their necks as part of their courtship ritual.

To watch the courtship video click here.

The swans inspired Mr Phillips was inspired to wrote the following poem below:

The World Needs Love

Let's keep afloat
The principle of Love,
Let's make a note
And stay up above
All hate and fear,
Not only for today,
Let's make it clear
In this communiqué.

Parents, sisters, brothers,
Cousins, uncles, and aunts,
Love is also for others,
Hopefully it will enchant
Girlfriends, boyfriends
Couples and fiancés,
And all manner of friends.
Let's all hug & shout "hurrays"

Black swans courting on the lake,
A perfect heart do they make.
Their fine feathers they display,
Though it may seem a bit like play.
Watch their eyes looking at each other,
They are not sister and brother!
Their necks they intertwine,
But are not drunk on wine.
They dance as if to Swan Lake,
But it's purely for their own sake.