Baby Swans Are All Grown Up
Summer really is over.
The baby swans in Institute park have grown up. You can barely tell they are babies anymore. Except for a few brown feathers they look just like their parents. One of them is even nasty like his dad (I'm guessing 'he' by his size). The dad has left the pond as he usually does. Mom and the babies will be gone soon too. The parents did a great job - of the six babies, four have made it.
Here's the family back in May. It's amazing that these tiny fluff balls grow so quickly into such beautiful (and huge) swans.
2 comments:
Swans are not an indigenous species to Worc. Anyone who feeds them is tampering with nature. People food is not good for wild animals and you are actually doing them a disservice by tampering with their instinctual need to migrate. After a few generations you'll have the same situation as the canada geese
ben
Thank you for your comment - you are absolutely right, feeding the swans is not good for them, for many reasons. That's why I never feed them or any other birds. There are signs out there. Some people just ignore those and feed them anyway.
I'm not sure about where the swans came from. It seemed that they were brought in to help get rid of the huge number of geese (swans HATE geese!). They just appeared one year after there had been some (failed) efforts to get the geese to move on. They generally disappear at about this time of year and then reappear in the Spring. None of the babies ever come back. Just the parents. They are pretty aggressive birds. By this time of year they are generally even fighting with their own babies.
Thanks again for the concern. It would be great if everyone would understand not to feed them but I don't see that happening.
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