Can you imagine two black adult swans and their entourage of gray fluff balls?
Mmmm?
Well, you have to - because my computer and camera are still not talking to one another. I've given up fretting about it. I have so much going on at the moment that it seems like a waste of energy to worry about what's happening with the images. I'll sort it out "later".
So there was going to be an image of the swans and their 4 babies - but there isn't!
I've been following their progress for a few weeks because these babies have hatched WAY too late. We're going into winter and the rest of this season's ducks and swans down by the dam are indistinguishable from their parents. Not this lot.
Four little gray balls of fuzz bobbing along behind mom and dad swan. They appear to be thriving and although there are many extra beaks at the dam at present I have no concerns about feed running out. I see the adults lifting lake weed to the surface so that the little guys can bob their heads under and fish for bugs or weed or whatever they eat.
I'm sure they're going to do just fine.
The dam is a busy old place at the moment as duck shooting season started about a week ago and many out-of-towner ducks have arrived for a visit. It always amazes me how the first few arrivals start turning up before the hunting season has started. They some how seem to know that "that" time of the year has arrived. Every morning I'll see a few more ducks swimming about.
I have to confess that my images - the ones you can't see - aren't that great. Very distant. So perhaps you're better off with your imagination!
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4 comments:
It sounds like a lively time of year. I'm sure you'll get the camera sorted and then we can have some pics.
I wonder, do swans there commonly have a second batch (The real word escapes me. Is it clutch?) of young 'uns? Or is this rare?
It's too bad about your computer/camera still not talking. I have a good imagination, but I'd still rather see photos of your part of the world :) I am trying to intersperse trees from your area with the dam that was near the house I grew up in, I'm sure it looks nothing like the real thing though! And we had Trumpeter Swans, so I have to paint them black too ;)
Sorry to hear your computer and camera are still not communicating - I'd love to have seen pictures.
Hope the little fluff balls catch up quickly! We are surrounded by red-winged black birds, purple finches and assorted other birds. The reason I mention the black birds and the finches is that this is the first year I've ever seen either of them at my feeders. Odd.
Oh, how precious! I would love to see the little gray fluff balls. I love fluff balls of all kinds. :-D
Perhaps I will dream of the little gray fluff balls tonight. While observing the tadpoles developing in the stream near one of my favorite hiking trails, I've been dreaming of bullfrogs!
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