Ardbeg / Port Bannatyne Cygnets
Posted: Tuesday, 04 December 2007 |
It's good to see another fine batch of three cygnets swimming around the shore around the Port and Ardbeg.
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Aren't they stunning? We have swans on the water in our park near here, they had 3 cygnets this year too. One year they had 7 and they all grew up! It was amazing to see them all take flight and circle round. Someone told me that the adults chase away the young ones the next spring to maintain their territory - certainly all the young ones disappeared the next year, and the adults started again.
Jill from EK
Thanks for that bit of info, Jill. I was actually wondering why there wasn't an ever-expanding family of swans around and it was only the adult pair with a similar number of cygnets each year.
Bute Photography from Bute
We must be doing something wrong!! We chase away our cygnets regularly but they keep coming back, invading our territory, eating us out of nest and home and scoffing all our happy juice. Do you think the swans could teach us a thing or two about assertive parenting???
yabutey from Bute
Yes!
Flying Cat from an empty nest
Every summer I go to Bute and there are sygnets. They're not bad like the ones on the mainland who bite, they will actually eat out of your hand, and follow you when who go rowing or kayaking. In the holidays me and my brother and sister feed them bread when we go to the shop whilst throwing stones to stop the seagulls from stealing their food.
Ceitidh from Northampton
nice story CEITIDH if yae chuck them nasty seagulls some alchaseltsers they will dissapear in a flash and not come back again .A top tip out of "10 things to do whilst mad and bored on the GLEN SANNOX"
ex bundy fae ra goy from blackburn lancashire
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