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A winter's day on a frozen Wilts & Berks canal at Swindon, and two young swans try out their wings. Their wings are a blur as they sweep by, but a bridge across the canal forces them to land. They are two of a brood of seven, of which the other three seem to have flown the nest. The parent mute swans are still swimming in the melting waters, a little way round the bend. The Wilts & Berks canal has its mid-point at Swindon. It links the River Thames at Abingdon (Oxon) with the Kennet & Avon Canal near Melksham (Wilts). Today (2010), the waterway is located in Wiltshire and Oxfordshire only (not Berkshire) since Local Government boundary changes in the 1970s.

$L 140-160cm, WS 200-240cm.\nBreeds on freshwater lakes, generally with reed beds and along coasts. Hardy, requires only open water in winter. Nest a large mound of reed stems etc. or on coasts, a heap of seaweed. Not shy, and can act aggressively, males have territorial fights with wing splashing rushes and long slides on the water.\n\nThis is a very common Bird in our Dutch Polders where there is enough open water.$

Trumpeter and Tundra swans migrate through central Montana on their way to the arctic

Swans formation flying migrated from the north in winter.

Three mute swans (Cygnus olor) swimming in a lake

A flock of migrating geese in a clear blue sky, Holland

Flying Tundra Swans, Cygnus columbianus, Gray Lodge Wildlife Reserve, Butte County, California

Whooper Swan, cygnus cygnus, Adults in Flight, Hokkaido Island in Japan

Flying Swans. Isolated birds. White background. Birds: Mute Swan. Cygnus olor.

Two male mute swans swimming on the lake

Three white swans in flight against the blue sky

trumpeter swan family of five flying in the sky

$The Whooper Swan, Cygnus cygnus, is a large Northern Hemisphere swan. It is the Old World counterpart of the North American Trumpeter Swan. Lake Kussharo, Hokkaido Island, Japan. Flying.\nWinter. Akan National Park.$

Bird flying Mute Swans Cygnus olor, wildlife Poland Europe

A large group of swans swimming closely on river waters in Berlin, Germany

A flock of Whooper swans flying over during spring migration in Estonia, Northern Europe

Bosham, Chichester Harbour, West Sussex. The beautiful harbour offers a wealth of birdlife and animal wildlife around its shores and coastline that is both photogenic and dramatic at various states of the tide.

Mute Swans (Cygnus olor) flying. Two mute swans in flight with sky background

Trumpeter swans flying in a perfect V formation through a beautiful blue sky with clouds

Two tundra swans flying with a blue sky background. Two ducks are also in the background. Has rust-brown color from ferrous minerals in some wetland water.

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