Back on July 3rd, I posted a photo of the mother swan sitting on her nest as she waited for her eggs to hatch. It was right around that time that they did actually hatch which would put these cygnets at somewhere near six weeks old. They still have their cygnet feathers are are a long ways from being able to fly though only a couple of months more and they’ll be ready to go. I did try to find them when they were smaller but each time I went looking for them, they were in tall grass feeding and I wasn’t successful in photographing them but last week they were napping and preening on the old nest. And in this image, they were joined by a mallard hen.