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WILDLIFE
Symbol Of Forever-Love
Mute swans, however, despite their grace and elegance are also aggressive birds. Care to know why?
I love photographing swans. Like a kid gazing with hopeful anticipation at the display window of a chocolate shop, that is how I feel when I see swans — or mute swans as they are classified.
With questions in my mind like which way to approach the birds or how close to the swan I should be — the excitement is delicious!
The thrill I feel is similar to that of unwrapping a big bag of chocolate-covered macadamia nuts.
Swans not only epitomise grace and elegance, they also symbolise love and romance.
Swans engage in a long-term relationship. They are monogamous. They famously pair for life, although divorce is a distant possibility.
Or when a partner dies, the surviving swan eventually looks for another partner.
(This I know to be a fact, having closely monitored a male swan whose partner died, with the male swan taking on another partner after many months. This is for another story.)