Subject guide
The Mute Swan
The journal's field notes on the mute swan — Cygnus olor, from the nesting vigil to the cygnets' first fortnight on open water. Two pieces so far.
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Wildlife
Six on the water: mute swan cygnets in their first fortnight
Six mute swan cygnets on the water. A field note on precocial foraging, the brood's first ten days, and the cob's quiet accounting under stress.
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Wildlife
The queen swan: the vigil
When do mute swans nest? In May the queen settles to her five-week vigil in the reeds — the brood patch, the bill turn, the regalia nobody writes about.
