We're BAACCCKKKK!
Two Trumpeter Swans were swimming in a small pool of the Eagle River, next to the Beaver Viewing Deck on the Rodak Trail, at the Eagle River Nature Center. You can see snow still on the banks of the river and that water is glacially feed, so very cold! I would like to hope this is an early sign of Spring and the beginning of birds migrating back to their nesting and breeding grounds, however this pair may have overwintered here. These birds breed on wetlands in remote Alaska, Canada, and northwest parts of the U.S.
In this image one of the swans was standing and flapping its wings quite vigorously - with wings that look angelic!
Taken 25 March 2018 at the Eagle River Nature Center, Alaska.
We're BAACCCKKKK!
Two Trumpeter Swans were swimming in a small pool of the Eagle River, next to the Beaver Viewing Deck on the Rodak Trail, at the Eagle River Nature Center. You can see snow still on the banks of the river and that water is glacially feed, so very cold! I would like to hope this is an early sign of Spring and the beginning of birds migrating back to their nesting and breeding grounds, however this pair may have overwintered here. These birds breed on wetlands in remote Alaska, Canada, and northwest parts of the U.S.
In this image one of the swans was standing and flapping its wings quite vigorously - with wings that look angelic!
Taken 25 March 2018 at the Eagle River Nature Center, Alaska.