I
then stopped at the waterfall exhibit. You can see here the real
specimen with its info board - and the one on the left of the picture
with the blue tag is a male!
Here
are a pair of merganzers! Here are some young merganzers - who were
hiding when I tried to photograph them on my last visit.
TWO
Blacknecked swans! On my last 3-4 visits, there has been one lonesome
swan calling sadly....but now there are two! I was mentioning this to
the staff member when he updated me on the swans and a few other
birds. This pair are both new, as the other original male was no
longer here. So, now we have 2 Bewick, 2 Trumpeter, and 2 blacknecked
swans again - all relatively recent arrivals. It will therefore be a few
more years before they have young - but....hopefully I will get to
know them better by then.
Nearby
was a line of dozing ducks.
I'm happy about the new pair of Blacknecked Swans, but now I wonder where the lonely male went? Did he buy a motorcycle and hit the road to come to terms with his loneliness or what?
ReplyDeleteprobably cried til he died - :( or maybe they took him some place where lonely old swans swan around together.....
ReplyDeleteSome animals do die of sadness when their mate dies, including people....
ReplyDeleteyes - and swans generally mate for life.....so its quite possible.
ReplyDelete