Photography And Half-Thoughts By Mitchell Hegman

...because some of it is pretty and some of it is not.

Friday, February 20, 2015

Fourteen Swans


At midmorning yesterday, I stepped out onto my deck to stretch a bit.  While there, I spotted fourteen swans on the lake below.  The lake remains frozen, mind you, but the swans seemed quite content as they wobbled around in a cluster on the greenish ice.

Swans!  Another sure sign of spring!

Some of the swans were issuing sounds something akin to a hasty marriage between the honking of a goose the growling of a lion fighting off laryngitis.  I would not exactly classify the swan noises as singing.  My next step is to contact my brother-in-law to see if swans are classified as pussy birds.

--Mitchell Hegman

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