I Found the Swans Again!

If you have read my blog for a while, you know that I was thrilled this spring to find some wild swans on a pond off the side of a secondary highway in the U.P. I had posted some pictures of them when I saw them the first time. (you can go to my search engine at the bottom of my blogposts and put in "swans" and call up the post).

Then, mid-summer I begged my husband to go back to the same pond to see if I could find the wild swans again. He didn't think they would still be there, but again ,we were thrilled to see the a second time! (I also wrote another blogpost of seeing them again).

Well, as you may have guessed by now, I begged my husband again to go and see if we could find them. He assured me that there was NO way they would still be in the same pond after raising their young and that by this late in the autumn, they would be long gone from the U.P.

And, thank goodness he was WRONG.

Lo and behold, they were there, and their babies were now full grown (although light gray in color rather than white, like their parents).

They were shy and didn't stay out in the open long when they spotted us. And, my zoom had to strain to see them clearly as they were wayyyyy back in the far side of the pond. But I was SO happy to get one more chance to see them and photograph them.

So, without any more delay, here you go:

Look CLOSE, in the front of Mama and Papa swan and you will see the gray youngsters:

I see ONE of the babies in this shot:

There is one baby to the left of the parents in this shot:

At one point, I swear I saw THREE babies and two adults, but I don't have clear enough pictures to share with you to prove that.

But here is another shot of the happy family:

Even though blowing up the photos makes them a bit blurry, I enlarged this one so you could see them a little closer:

I was amazed that the babies where almost as big as their parents already.

There is one place in the U.P. where the swans stayed the entire winter here.

So, stay tuned....

I just may beg my hubby one more time to check out if they stayed here all winter later this year.

I do rather doubt that they will, though because the water they are using here in this little pond will surely freeze over solid.

They may stay in the U.P though, if they fly somewhere on Lake Superior where the water may stay open all winter, depending on how cold it gets...