Nearly two weeks ago, Joanne Siderius, Kokanee Creek Park’s senior naturalist, published some pictures of a cygnet.
Yesterday three of us saw what was apparently the same cygnet at close quarters, again at the park. I have seen a cygnet with its pink bill a few times previously, but only in November or December. This was the closest I had been.
This might be a Tundra Swan or a Trumpeter Swan. There are ambiguous indicators. Joanne thought it was probably a tundra, and in the end that is my guess also.
Wow!
So beautiful!
Beautiful!
I concur with Tundra, based on bill/face junction: extension of bill at join with eye appears narrower than eye (same width on Trumpeter); junction of bill with cheek below eye appears more steeply sloped than on Trumpeter.
Simply spectacular :0)