Well it is bad news, the swans we saw on Saturday are the swans we have been feeding the last few months, So yes they have lost 2 of their cygnets, They looked better today but still a little sad, the mother swan was looking around as if she was expecting the lost cygnets to come back.
We where hoping that they had paired up with other swans but Louise did some searching and found out that the young swans can stay with their parents for about 2 years.

Tags: Swans, Cygnets

We think we have had some bad news today, The swans we have been feeding over the last six months or so and then watching them nesting and having three cygnets, Well we haven’t seen them for about two weeks. Then today we saw two swans and a cygnet on the canal, When we got to them we looked at the ring number and we think it read Y126 which is the number of the female swan we have been feeding, but they didn’t react the same as they have done in the past in-fact they didn’t look very well at all and what’s worse is that they only had one cygnet with them, so that means they must of lost two off them,we had got really attached to the swans so this has upset us both. We are hoping we will see them tomorrow and we will check the number again just to make sure.
The photo top left was taken on the 24/5/08 and was one of the cygnets first outings,
The photo top right was taken on the 22/6/08 and the last one of them all together,
The bottom two photos where taken today, the female swan and her remaining cygnet.

Tags: Swans, Cygnets

Just been on our walk with Horace, The swans cygnets are doing fine, They are difficult to take photos of by them selves, A bit too active and still a bit clingy but I did manage to get this shot.

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The male swan was a bit protective of his territory today, I managed to get a bit of video of it. Moments before this he chased off what we thought was a fish. Click on the image to see the video.

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Over the last 3 days the swans have not been around their nest, We thought that they might have moved away but this morning on our walk with Horace they were on their nest. This evening they were not too far from the nest, We managed to feed them and I got some more photos, This one being the best one.

Tags: Swans, Cygnets

When walking Horace yesterday we saw the new cygnets in the nest, Today we watched them for about half an hour, I managed to get a photograph of them, I have a Lumix FX30 and a small pair of binoculars so I put the camera in macro mode and zoomed in and put the binoculars up to the lens, It was a bit difficult to keep steady but I did manage to get this shot. Aren't they cute. I will be taking the video camera with me this evening, Lets hope they are out again.

Tags: Swans, Cygnets