Bird Sightings : Hebrides : Mute Swan

Mute Swan

Cygnus olor

Gaelic: Eala-bhan

There were 8 cygnets with this swan

Photograph © Debbie Bozkurt
Benbecula - Outer Hebrides (Western Isles)
10th June, 2007

Our swan phototographs :

mute swan	mute swan with cygnets	mute swan cygnets	mute swans with cygnets	black swan	whooper swan (other photos too)

 

Some interesting collective nouns for swans :

A ballet, team, whiting, squadron of swans (dubious this one!)

A bank, herd, sounder, drift, lamentation of swans

A game, herd, bevy of swans

A regatta of swans (on water)

A whiteness of swans

An eyrar of swans

A wedge of swans (flying in a "V")

From WIKI

 

Other local bird photographs

Debbie's online photo album

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