The
pair of swans on the pond at the Parkes Way x Coranderrk Street
roundabout in Civic have produced two newly hatched cygnets.
It
is an assumption on my part that it is the same pair that nested on the
pond last year, starting with nest building in January but taking a
long time to actually produce anything - the archives will show the
reports. But it would seem more likely than not, to me, that the same
pair rather than a different pair would find this rather unusual
breeding site acceptable.
I
first noticed a new nest at the beginning of last week, but there were
two young cygnets (I think there are only two but there may be three -
I make my observations from a moving motorbike in peak hour traffic!)
on Friday. Today the adults appeared to be finishing a second nest of
fresh green weed, with the cygnets swimming around them.
Harvey
Harvey Perkins, PhD
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