By Bill at October 15, 2009 16:09
Filed Under: Nature
![swan.480[1]](http://www.dogspots.com/DSBE/image.axd?picture=swan.480%5B1%5D.jpg "swan.480[1]")
The swans I wrote about this spring have made the New York Times.
The authors seem to think that the swans being violent is a surprising and new development. However, my experience is that violent and territorial is standard behavior for these birds when other birds are around.
Another thing to note is that the article mentions that the southern family includes four cygnets. The southern family is the one I encountered and my pictures and video show five cygnets. I guess one of them didn’t make it. Maybe that’s what pissed off the father. Or maybe the one cygnet with the northern family is an adopted runaway.
At any rate, it seems that local residents are trying to mediate between the two families. I wonder what they are trying to accomplish. Humans are so strange.
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