under a bush
ducks resting on spring grass
dappled light
ahead of his love and her nest
a swan guards the river
© Xenia Tran
With love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Carpe Diem Spring Retreat 2018: The Light of the World
Twiglet #74: Under a Bush
Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge: Lines
Daily Prompt: Observe
Aaah, and soon there will be little ducklings waddling around. Don’t you just love spring!
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Thank you Misky, it is such a lovely time with all this new life! xxx
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So lovely and peaceful 💖 xxx
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Thank you Cathy ☺💖 xxx
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This is beautiful, Xenia.
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Thank you De! ☺💖 xxx
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Lovely!
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Thank you Rupali! ☺💖 xxx
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I too have ducks and geese around. But the swans – though some are local they do not come to the creek.
Delicate lines like spring shadows.
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Thank you Jules, so lovely you have ducks and geese around! We are blessed with a few swan families and many ducks nesting nearby and hear the geese fly over – it is rare to see them up close in these parts ☺
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One of the local collages has a pond with a black and white swan pair. But I think something happened to one of them. Now the photo shows two white ones.
Some fun facts I didn’t know: Millers is the male swan (called a cob)
S’Ville is the the female (called a pen)
Swans usually form pairs for life
The young or baby swans are called cygnets.
Swan nests are usually a large pile of reeds and water plants.
Female usually lays four to six eggs
She incubates them until they hatch about 30-35 days later.
The male guards the nest from predators and may take over incubation so that the female can feed.
The babies emerge short-necked and thickly downed; though capable of running and swimming a few hours after hatching, they are carefully tended for several months
Both parents tend the cygnets, which are sometimes seen riding on the back of a swimming parent.
Cygnets first learn to float in the water, then start to fly in about 60-75 days.
Young swans do not grow their white feathers until the next summer
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Thank you for these fun facts Jules! Our river pen and her previous cob raised 62 cygnets together before the cob sadly passed away. She found a new mate last year and has been on the nest since early April – fingers crossed all will go well! 😉
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Add my hopeful thoughts too 🙂
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Thank you Jules, will do! 🤗🍀
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