Following on from our earlier post Swan Love, the cob (male swan) is building the nest whilst the pen (female swan) is feeding on extra minerals in the river below.
We wish you all a wonderful Wednesday and a peaceful rest of the week,
with love from Xenia xxx
Photographs by Xenia Tran, edited in lr.
Settings: f/6.3 – 1/1000 s – ISO 200 and f/5 – 1/400 s – ISO 200.
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Division of labor! Such lovely birds. And do the cycle of life begins again.
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Thank you kindly dear Laurie, it’s lovely to see the start of a new cycle again 💚
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Building up to new life on the river 🦢 💚 Such a lovely time of the year. Wishing you all a peaceful rest of the day 🤗🐕 xxx
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Thank you so much for your kind words dear Cathy, it’s so lovely to see 💚 Wishing you a peaceful rest of the day to too and much love from our house to yours 🤗💕🐕 xxx
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Thank you, Xenia and much love to you all 💚🐕💚xxx
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Thank you Cathy 🤗💚🐕 xxx
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Looks like a safe spot to nest!
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Thank you kindly dear Eliza, it’s high enough to stay dry during Spring Tide 💚
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Oh wow!
Now seeing this lovely pair of wanna-be swan parents is certainly a big treat 🙂
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Thank you kindly dear Hammad, it’s so lovely to see them prepare for the next generation 🤗
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Lovely photos of your swans. Nice to see them again. The trumpeter swans on the pond near us are back too. The odd thing is there are THREE swans. Does the cob have a harem? or does the pen have two cobs. I have never seen three swans before. What do you think about this combination? Could one be a baby from last year?
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Thank you so much for your kind words dear Anne 💛 It’s common for juvenile swans (who aren’t yet breeding) to form or join a flock and sometimes youngsters return to a nesting site if their parents have perished or chosen to nest elsewhere. I don’t know whether you’ll be able to get close enough to see whether the trumpeter swans are male or female and what kind of age they are. If this is last year’s breeding pair with one of their cygnets, the youngster’s feathers won’t be completely white yet 💚 xxx
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I shall go to the pond with my binoculars and try to observe. When i drove by today I could see that one did seem to have a grey neck so maybe it is last years cygnet.
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I’m so happy that we’ll soon have new cygnets to “ooh and aah” over!
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Aww thank you kindly dear Dries, fingers crossed all will go well 🍀
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Fantastic to get a birds-eye view (no pun intended) of the action 😃
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Haha, thank you kindly dear Jez! 😀
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Lovely to see the nest being built
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Thank you kindly dear Karina!💛
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