Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Winter Swans

Andy | Tuesday, January 21, 2020 | | Best Blogger Tips
Mute swans are huge white bird with long neck, reddish orange bill, and black face. Immatures are dusky brown with a gray bill. Native to northern Europe and Asia, but introduced in many regions, where it is now common on ponds, lakes, and calm coastal waters. They need to winter in a place with open water shallow enough to tip to the bottom for food.

15 comments:

  1. ...beautiful, but they are considered invasive in many places.

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  2. We used to have them here but the DNR said they ate too much bottom grass and adled all the eggs of their nests!!!

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  3. The two teenagers are already tall, soon they will become tall like the two adults and all white.

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  4. Very elegant creatures in the water.

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  5. Great photo. I see the children are almost fully grown. They do not seem to mind cold water as I believe that is ice floating in the foreground.

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  6. Looks like they are thinking, "it's him agsin, the guy with the camera."

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  7. Nice to see these. Though the adult swans look similar to the tundra swans those immatures look different than the young tundra swans. The tundras are solid grey. (There's one partially hidden behind an adult in my shot today.)

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  8. That's funny, I was just visiting Denise in VA's blog and she has Mute Swans too!

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  9. They are beautiful, and looking at you it seems.

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  10. They are pretty, sometimes here they can get quite vicious though.

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  11. I didn't realise you had them in your country, Andy. Here they all belong to the Queen

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  12. They have no choiche but must winter in nearly frozen water.

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  13. Pretty photo, we see mostly only the white ones here.

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