Black Swans on Parkes Way [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

["Perkins, Harvey" <>]

One of the two cygnets on the pond in the middle of the circle at the junction of Parkes Way and Coranderrk Street died some time earlier this week. The two adults and the remaining cygnet, now about 1/3 grown, are still there most mornings when I pass.

 

I'm pretty sure both cygnets were there on Monday but I only saw 1 on Tuesday. I went at lunchtime yesterday to check and discovered the body of the dead cygnet floating in the green scummy surface weeds. Neither parent nor sibling showed any interest in the body. I wonder if was just a bit too cold for it?

 

Harvey

 

 

 

Harvey Perkins, PhD
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