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*Rare, continuing birds seen at very close range (too close?) from Bob Fay park. Three extremely tame swans, staying for weeks...hmm, seems a bit questionable. But none had clipped wings, could fly well, and none had bands. Stayed on a small, rocky island the entire time I watched them, and all three slept most of the time. Occasionally one would stand up to adjust position and then lay back down. They never entered the water, but later took flight and went out of sight. All were juvs., with dingy white bodies, dirty-gray heads and necks, extensively pink bills with black around the nostrils, nail, and base. Legs and feet were black. When eyes were closed contrast between the bright white of the eyelids (bottom lid covered eye) and the grayish face was striking. I watched them through my scope (amazing views!!!) while they slept for almost two hours, totally transfixed, observing how one individual’s back toe twitched while it slept, how the dense undertail coverts completely conceal the rectrices from below, how the veins of the scapular feathers are brown while the plume is white, how another individual lays on its stomach, it’s legs out behind, and stretches its neck to get a drink of water and then tilts its head back to swallow with a swishing motion of the cheeks, how a small protrusion extends outward from the nostril (opening up to take a breath?) before withdrawing back into the nostril, or how the birds yawn nervously (much like a dog) every few seconds when an eagle perched nearby. More notes later
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