Hitching a ride
by Inge Riis McDonald
Title
Hitching a ride
Artist
Inge Riis McDonald
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
After a long day of swimming, a couple of the cygnets hitched a ride om mom's back.
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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June 15th, 2013
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Comments (14)
Judy Via-Wolff
What a touching capture! Emotional and so full of love and trust. Fantastic capture, So happy you shared this, FV and vote!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Laurie Search
Awww!!! I didn't know they actually did that!! That is so, so, so adorable!!! :)) I love it!!! :)))fv