This isn’t CONE Welder content, but I wanted to post some images I took with my phone when my son and I came across an unexpected bird at the Carpinteria Salt Marsh Nature Reserve this afternoon. I’m pretty sure this is an immature Mute Swan:
The bird seemed fairly tame; it swam under the Franklin Creek footbridge while my son and I stood above, then hung around for the ten minutes we stayed to watch it, dipping for what looked like aquatic plants.
Nice pictures Elanus! I bet your son found it exciting too. We have Mute swans near our house and I have a link to my website below to some pictures I took:
http://www.tinyang.net/birds/mute_swans/index.htm