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| 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. |
...beautiful, but they are considered invasive in many places.
ReplyDeleteWe used to have them here but the DNR said they ate too much bottom grass and adled all the eggs of their nests!!!
ReplyDeleteThe two teenagers are already tall, soon they will become tall like the two adults and all white.
ReplyDeleteVery elegant creatures in the water.
ReplyDeleteThey are beautiful!
ReplyDeleteThey're very pretty.
ReplyDeleteGreat 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.
ReplyDeleteLooks like they are thinking, "it's him agsin, the guy with the camera."
ReplyDeleteNice 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.)
ReplyDeleteThat's funny, I was just visiting Denise in VA's blog and she has Mute Swans too!
ReplyDeleteThey are beautiful, and looking at you it seems.
ReplyDeleteThey are pretty, sometimes here they can get quite vicious though.
ReplyDeleteI didn't realise you had them in your country, Andy. Here they all belong to the Queen
ReplyDeleteThey have no choiche but must winter in nearly frozen water.
ReplyDeletePretty photo, we see mostly only the white ones here.
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