Growing Pains

Remember the furry cygnets from Spring time? They're all grown up, and two have actually left the family.

Okay, perhaps we can go back and look at the pictures of them:
April - nesting
May - a family
July - scroll down the middle of the page.

Now that we've had a little refreshing of the past photos, maybe we should learn about what's happening now with the remaining one cygnet.

For a while this one cygnet had been tagging along with daddy & mummy swan. The Finn & the DDA seem to think that it's a female, that's why it's been pampered for all this while. But this morning, we saw the daddy & mummy, but not the cygnet.

Later during mid-day we saw the cygnet swimming alone. At first we wouldn't believe it, but it's been chased away by it's own parents.




Click on the thumbnails for a closer look.

This was a shot captured whilst the daddy was doing his chase, wings half raised and arched, charging straight ahead. The moment the cygnet took flight, the daddy took off and caught up, and in fact took a bite at its tail!

Poor baby... maybe it's time to grow up and live away from home?