| A beautiful day for a walk in the park. |
Friday June 06, 2014. Swan Lake Village area, Markham, Ontario |
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| The Mute Swan's Cygnets have their first day on the lake. |
| Swan Lake Park - June 5th, 2014 |
| Great Blue Heron |
| We followed a Great Blue Heron that was fishing out at the point and later flew over to the shore opposite the bridge at turtle inlet. |
| Swan Lake Park - June 6th, 2014 - Cygnets First Day on the lake. |
| Some of the Swan Lake Volunteers |
| Doc Sal, Art and Mark preparing to check on the Cygnets and the nest. Standing in front of the entrance to the Swan Feeder. |
| Mute Swan - Cygnets |
| Two of the four Cygnets swimming with both Romeo and Juliet watching them carefully. Very difficult to get a shot of the Cygnets as both parents were guarding them and kept moving them away from us and placing themselves between us and the Cygnets. |
| After the swim Juliet returns to the nest to try and hatch the last egg. She is turning the egg over and getting ready to sit on the egg. |
| Meanwhile the Cygnets were tired from their first swim and rested on the shore below the nest. |
| Doc Sal and Mark helping me try to get some better shots of the Cygnets from the water. Picture by Art Henschel. |
| Northern Cardinal |
| While we were trying to get pictures of the Cygnets a beautiful male Northern Cardinal was flying and stopping along the path. Picture courtesy of Mark H. |