On June 15 this year two beautiful black swans had 5 little cygnets on our lake. There are now only two left and today Sept. 14 they are almost as big as their parents. They returned to the nest where they were born. _MG_3776 by Ray Allen, on Flickr Meanwhile their mother was sitting on a nearby nest after laying an as yet unknown number of eggs. _MG_3788 by Ray Allen, on Flickr