Swans

[FOWL HABIT]

Has anybody seen the eight swans in the rice fields on the cooper I am wondering if they were tamies and released or they just came here, is that rare because I have never seen them around here before. They are in Mulberry rice field mostly and sometimes in Pimlico rice field. I will try to get some pics.

[Gander]

Not that rare. I usually see a couple every year in the midlands.

[Duckman#1]

There's been one lone swan hanging out in the river all summer mostly aroound Ricehope. He's not crippled so I don't know whats up with that.

[FOWL HABIT]

I know them things scared me for a minute when i came up on them in some thick fog a couple weeks ago and they did not get up until i was about 10 foot from them and i was just getting to where i could see and they got up.

[DRDUCK]

DON'T SHOOT!

[GMAC]

If their wings arch up over their backs, they are mute swans, escaped or feral stock. If their wings lay flat and smooth against their backs, they are wild whistling swans.

Several thousand feral mute swans have become a major problem in the Chesapeake, ruining large areas of aquatic vegatation. The antis pitch a fit whenever the biologists suggest shooting them, and the sniveling Maryland authorities always relent.

[FOWL HABIT]

oh i ain't gonna shoot. i am pretty sure that there wings do not arch over there back i will try to get some pics of them flying though.