Tag: Mute Swan

Birnie Loch (19 Dec 2022)

I treated myself to a second hand lens, a Sigma DG 50-500mm 1:4.5-6.3 APO HSM. That’s a bit of a mouthful, and it’s a heavy beast as well…

Mute Swan (15 Dec 2014)

Another image showing that close to they are not just white – there are subtle hints of warm colour.  I think this is a male as the black…

Ice Trek (17 Feb 2010)

Sometimes the swans on Gaddon Loch got lucky and someone would feed them.  Here they are trekking back from the edge to one of the holes in the…

Take-off! (17 Feb 2010)

A few of the swans decided that a mixture of running and flapping might be easier than waddling back to the holes in the ice. This swan hasn’t…

Immature Mute Swan (17 Nov 2009)

Still at Birnie Loch!  This is one of the 2009 cygnets part-way through the process of changing it’s brown immature plumage for the white of an adult. It…

Mute Swan Preening (17 Sep 2009)

Also taken at Birnie Loch.  Judging by the size of the black knob at the base of his bill, this looks like a cob (male) swan to me….