How Cute Is This?

Written By Tyler Ingram on May 27, 2010

I could have used the title “Photos From Today”, but today is somewhat different then the rest. My buddy and I did our usual walk around Stanley Park’s Lost Lagoon but today we were in for a treat. One of the Mute Swan’s finally had a successful hatching. Yup that’s right, 1 cygnet has been hatched. There were 2 bad eggs amongst this particular Mute Swan’s nest, but it is great to see at least one of the cygnets.

We think that the other nest that has about 4 or 5 eggs are bad as they have been in the nest a lot longer than the ones where this new cygnet hatched from.

I'm Adorable!

Momma's Boy

Grass is Good!

Trying to Flap

I swear they are one of THE most adorable creatures to watch. Ducklings are cute, goslings (similar to cygnets) are fairly cute too, but something about the curiosity and colouring of the Mute Swan Cygnets just make them much more cute.

While we were there snapping photos of the little tyke, one of the local Ecological Society Volunteers were there babysitting this particular cygnet. She was mentioning how someone waded across to the nest and threw a large stone into it so the Swans could not sit on their nest anymore. Another report from her mentions that there was an issue of someone pouring OIL (yes, such as the BP disaster down south) over the Mute Swan and her nest at some point too. Though if this is true we did not see any indication around the Lagoon. What the hell is wrong with people? Why would some dumb-schmuck try and be harmful to such harmless creatures?

Anyway, I hope the photos at least get you through your Thursday.

Posted in: Outdoors, Photography

8 Responses to "How Cute Is This?"

Lisa
May 27, 2010 at 15:18:07
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SO CUTE!!! Thanks for posting these!
Kimm
May 27, 2010 at 16:33:37
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What a little cutie!
Robyn
May 27, 2010 at 19:34:09
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I love the Mommy and baby swan picture!, so precious!!!
Duncan
May 27, 2010 at 23:24:01
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SUPER CUTE!!
April
May 28, 2010 at 11:16:44
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Very precious, thanks for the smiles, Tyler
Chris
May 28, 2010 at 18:28:02
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Great shots–we saw it yesterday when mama brought it out the the trail for a nibble of grass. I can’t believe someone would try to hurt these things–there are some pretty sad excuses for humans in this town.
Sean Hagen
Jun 09, 2010 at 13:47:45
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Posted one of the photos to Daily Squee.

http://dailysquee.com/2010/06/07/cute-baby-animals-swan-chick-fuzzy/

I entered in the link to point back to this post, but it seems to have gotten lost =\
Tyler Ingram June 9th, 2010 at 15:37:12
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Thanks Sean! I just added a comment saying that the backlink somehow got misplaced