Wild Bird Wednesday

I often drive to town by the back roads because there is a much better opportunity to see some wildlife.  I slowed down by the channel from our lake and bemoaned the fact that I haven't seen our swans for weeks.  Usually they are in the channel with their cygnets, but not today.  Further down the road there is a little creek that I slow down for because periodically I will spot an egret.  Imagine my surprise when I saw a young pair of Mute Swans with two cygnets making their way toward me in the small creek.  The creek goes under the road so I pulled over and put my blinkers on so the other (rude and impatient) people could pass me.  I don't know where this creek leads.  I hope it is a safe place for this little family.

They look healthy and happy for now ... Be well my little friends ... be safe.  You are in Wisconsin now and that is a hostile place for mute swans.  It makes me sad to even think about them shooting the swans and the Sandhill cranes in Wisconsin.  It's a government agency run amuck!