ianmichaelthomas
Flexible!
This is a wild and free baby Australian native black swan (despite its white feathers!) - already featured in my photostream.
What I find fascinating is that just like human babies are so incredibly flexible - so is this baby swan - the webbed foot you can see is its RIGHT foot, not the left! It was crossed right over its body.
They are looking for water weed to have for lunch, as their parents are doing, just out of shot. These swans are vegetarians.
Ah....the joys of working at La Trobe University, with such magnificent landscaped gardens, open spaces and extensive lakes and wetlands.
Here, a family of wild and free Australian native swans, the only native black swan, on the main lake, without many other waterbirds - ducks of various species, sea gulls, amongst others.
The Black Swan is a vegetarian. Food consists of algae and weeds, which the bird obtains by plunging its long neck into water up to 1 m deep. Occasionally birds will graze on land, but they are clumsy walkers.
La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia
Flexible!
This is a wild and free baby Australian native black swan (despite its white feathers!) - already featured in my photostream.
What I find fascinating is that just like human babies are so incredibly flexible - so is this baby swan - the webbed foot you can see is its RIGHT foot, not the left! It was crossed right over its body.
They are looking for water weed to have for lunch, as their parents are doing, just out of shot. These swans are vegetarians.
Ah....the joys of working at La Trobe University, with such magnificent landscaped gardens, open spaces and extensive lakes and wetlands.
Here, a family of wild and free Australian native swans, the only native black swan, on the main lake, without many other waterbirds - ducks of various species, sea gulls, amongst others.
The Black Swan is a vegetarian. Food consists of algae and weeds, which the bird obtains by plunging its long neck into water up to 1 m deep. Occasionally birds will graze on land, but they are clumsy walkers.
La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia