Trumpeter swans! Sorry for the horrible photo quality, all I had with me was my iPhone and I parked on the opposite side of the road so I would disturb the swans as little as possible (requiring me to use the digital zoom). There were 13 that I counted, but they were pretty hard to pick out of the snow. It was a mixed-age group, with some still all-gray birds (last year's babies, aka cygnets) hanging out with pure white adults. I've gotten to hold these guys during releases, and they are an armful. Luckily they don't usually try to peck you in the face, unlike some other birds I've held.
I haven't gotten out as much as I would like lately, but staying indoors more means I get to spend lots of quality time with my pets. Animal lover + enrichment training = I like to make my animals' lives interesting. Yesterday, since there wasn't a lot of activity at my feeders (which the cat loves to watch) I decided to give him some other birds to watch.
Yep, I let my cat watch David Attenborough's Life of Birds. He laid there and watched the entire second episode, the one about flight! My birds prefer episode #6 about songs.
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