Juvenile tundra swan required a runway to take off from the pond! I am so used to ducks popping up from the pond like corks that I was holding my camera in wrong position to capture the takeoff. You can tell it’s a juvenile because the head is gray.
Swan was paddling around on the pond, totally unaware that I was sneaking up on it with all the stealth a senior citizen can muster.
These shots show the bird continuing to climb. To me the most interesting thing to observe here is the black edge at the end of the tail feathers. Those are the swan’s enormous black feet!
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Carrie Staples
Author, illustrator of "The Yarn Animal Book", probably the only craft book with instructions for making such unique yarn animals as an orangutan, an ant eater, a llama and a star-nosed mole and "The Single Minded Prince, a fairy tale for all ages about a boy and a pirate captain who both misbehave. The books and a booklet series based on each different yarn craft topic covered in "The Yarn Animal Book" (pompoms and other really easy yarn crafts, knitting, crocheting, rya, needlepoint and embroidery), are available on Amazon and Kindle.
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