Foggy morning and couldn’t find the swans!

Very quick tonight as it’s past my bedtime already but we are on our way back from taking an injured rook to the wildlife hospital…
This morning Syd and Wilma had led their fluffs to the far end of the lake so it took me a while to find them, but all was well. They all had a feed and the cygnets were swimming around well ❤️
Didn’t get back this eve as I had chiropractor appt and then we ended up reacuing the rook… another late night for the sake of wildlife.

[@GulfNZ]

They must be taking a nap somewhere 😁❤

[@janellemccracken6942]

Wonderful to have found your channel....someone else as crazy about birds as me 😁 What are you feeding the cygnets? I presume you feed them on the water? Or do they bring them up on the bank to you. Asking as I've been feeding my local swans for about a year now, currently Mrs (Jeannie) is happily incubating and if my observations are right, then I'm hoping there will be cygnets sometime in the next week 😁 last year their nest failed so I'm hoping this year is better for them.

[@reallifewiththecrazybirdla2660]

Fingers crossed you’ll have cygnets soon, they’re so special 🥰 I feed a mixture of foods including bread, layers pellets, mixed bird seed, and floating pellets. Sometimes sunflower seeds too.
The cygnets I always feed on water. Syd and Wilma will come out to feed with me, but I don’t encourage the cygnets to do this as I don’t want them to mistakenly believe all humans are safe to hand feed with.

[@janellemccracken6942]

@@reallifewiththecrazybirdla2660 ahhh, that's great, thanks so much for replying. Mine I always only feed when they are in the water as there's a road right next to the water channel (the nest is right away from the road though, I know where they are, but too far away to really see what's happening, and too much vegetation around now) So I feed a mixture too of floating pellets, seed and oats. What are layers pellets? Hoping for cygnets in the next couple of days. There seemed to be some different activity around the nest last night from what little I could see. 😁

[@reallifewiththecrazybirdla2660]

​​⁠layers pellets, it’s chicken feed. I have rescue hens at home and sometimes use their feed for the water birds ❤
Fingers crossed you see fluffies soon 🤞🏻🥰