Return of the Trumpeters?

[stgislander]

Two centuries later, a great big beautiful native returns to the Chesapeake Bay | Opinion

Now we have at least four documented successful trumpeter nests in the Maryland portion of the Chesapeake with several young swans, or cygnets.

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[Sneakers]

Nice. But very territorial. Big enough to knock a canoe over. Ask me how I know...

 

[stgislander]

Nice. But very territorial. Big enough to knock a canoe over. Ask me how I know...

How do you know?

 

[stgislander]

Nice. But very territorial. Big enough to knock a canoe over. Ask me how I know...

So are buffalo soooo....

 

[Sneakers]

How do you know?

I heard stories.

 

[luvmygdaughters]

I lived on the Eastern Shore about 25 years ago, made the drive to Clinton every weekday for work. Would love seeing the swans there when I came home in the evening, there was a black swan there also.

 

[stgislander]

I lived on the Eastern Shore about 25 years ago, made the drive to Clinton every weekday for work. Would love seeing the swans there when I came home in the evening, there was a black swan there also.

Likely mute swans.

 

[Grumpy]

I lived on the Eastern Shore about 25 years ago, made the drive to Clinton every weekday for work. Would love seeing the swans there when I came home in the evening, there was a black swan there also.

Wonder if that is why the other swans left.

 

[ontheriver]

Nice. But very territorial. Big enough to knock a canoe over. Ask me how I know...

Blue Heron are also very territorial. They scream at their own. They are on my pier all winter scooping fish. In March one year there was one on the pier banging something (no not that) on the pier. It was a hard crab. I couldn't believe it. In March!

Back to the Swans, I hope they do come back. Wasn't there a killing of swans?

 

[stgislander]

Wasn't there a killing of swans?

DNR had a program to eradicate invasive Asian mute swans.