Can't quite explain why I found this vignette so touching. The swan is a year old this spring. He's starting to spend less time around his watchful parents - an adolescent thing.
But I never expected this in a swan. I watched him circling beneath a tree. My binoculars revealed the cause. A Kingfisher sat in the branches above him. The young swan was curious. Imagine that. In this new heart under those white feathers. Wonder. About his world.
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How delightful - I wonder what he was wondering?
What a lovely series.
That is so cool! I am so glad you were there to catch the pictures.
Made me smile. Those kingfishers are hard to keep still. I do wonder what the swan was wondering.
Sweet, Cathy.
Oh goodness, that is just wonderful. Thank you for sharing. Miss you.
Wonderful series of photos. I've always thought that you seem to catch these very cool little sequences that many of us miss. I do think animals are much more curious that we give them credit. When I kept dairy goats, I often saw them acting out of curiosity -- approaching something that seemed terrifying (to them) when they didn't have to -- just because they had to know what that thing was -- such as an old garbage bag that had blown into the pasture and was caught in a tree. Once they realized they'd been had by a garbage bag, they would tear it down, leap and stomp on it. Pretty funny.
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