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Sunday, October 21, 2012

The Young Swans Learning To Fly

 

 

IMG_4697_1 Young Cygnet

Looking back to  June and Look at them now

This little cygnet was learning to survive,

and now it is learning to fly.

 

 

 

 

IMG_1992 Young Swan

Clear the runway; Here I come.

 

 

 

 

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Hey, I’m paddling on water. Honk…Honk!

 

 

 

 

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These wings sure come in handy.

 

 

 

 

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Need a little more speed.

 

 

 

 

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Can you believe this. We are about to fly!

 

 

 

 

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Hey! Wait for me.

 

 

 

 

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Lift off….We did it!!! We are flying.

 

 

 

 

IMG_2010 Young Swans In Flight

And the crowd cheers

 

 

 

 

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Okay, Now for the landing. Mission Accomplished.

 

 

 

 

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From Baby Cygnets to Beautiful Young Swans

Here are the swans and cygnets from May to The end of September 2012. I hope you found this Series interesting. I know I sure enjoyed following this swan family, I like to call, “The Class Of 2012. They all past accept for one little cygnet that didn’t make it. I think it is pretty amazing that 8 out of the 9 cygnets lived to become these Beautiful young swans who will one day have a family of their own.

 

All photos and written script by Dianne © dsphotocats

 

Hope to find you all well, and enjoying the Seasons of Life.

God Bless one and all.

Dianne :)

Saturday, October 13, 2012

Flight 01 in Sequence

 

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Mr. Cob starting down the runway

 

 

 

 

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Clear The Runway

 

 

 

 

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Here He Comes

 

 

 

 

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Treading The Water

 

 

 

 

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Gaining Speed

 

 

 

 

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This Looks Like Hard Work

 

 

 

 

IMG_1976 _7 Paddling And Spreading Those Wings

 

 

 

 

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Up Goes The Landing Gear

 

 

 

 

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Down Goes The Landing Gear As He Pushes Forward

 

 

 

 

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Up And Away He Goes

 

 

 

 

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He Puts On The Brakes, Now For The Landing

This was a short distance flight to show the young ones how to do it.

Stay Tuned

In the next episode I will show one or two of the young ones learning to fly.

I took quite a few pictures and the lighting was a challenge. This is what I took… out of my camera other than a bit of cropping and resizing. 

Some of the young ones started to fly right after big daddy, but it all happened so fast, and I captured what I could, hand holding  my 170-500 lens which weighs roughly 4.5lbs not including the camera. I didn’t have time to set my IS on Panning.

These may not be wall hangers, but I had fun capturing these swans taking off into a short distance flight.

I was so happy and thrilled to witness this. I couldn’t believe my eyes when the 10 swans swam out to where there were a large number of geese and ducks and corralled them out of their way (Flying Path), and got ready to fly. I took some pictures and at times just watched them in “Awe”. of what I saw. This family of swans and cygnets have come along way. The cygnets have transformed into Beautiful Swans. Soon it will be time to say goodbye unless they leave on announced. I think it is called the “Call Of The Wild”. South they will head. How far I do not know.

This is the second family of swans in the last few years that I have had the pleasure of following for a season. I hope and pray I will get yet another chance to witness another family of swans next Spring and Summer. But will enjoy these while I can.

Until next time :)

Dianne © dsphotocats

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