Morning Toilette
by Inge Riis McDonald
Title
Morning Toilette
Artist
Inge Riis McDonald
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Juvenile swan preening at sunrise, creating lovely ripples in the water.
The exotic Mute Swan (Cygnus olor) is the elegant bird of Russian ballets and European fairy tales. This swan swims with its long neck curved into an S and often holds its wings raised slightly above its back. Although they’re numerous and familiar in city parks and in bays and lakes in the Pacific Northwest, Great Lakes, Northeast, and Midatlantic, Mute Swans are not native to North America. Their aggressive behavior and voracious appetites often disturb local ecosystems, displace native species, and even pose a hazard to humans. (All about birds)
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November 7th, 2013
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