Penny, far left, Tycho and the cygnets come around the point, heading for ABYC today. © BCP 2010 Any day I see our swans, Penny and Tycho, and their cygnets is a wonderful day. I saw them today in the bay, after not seeing them there for at least a month and a half. (I […]
Penny feeds her little ones some yummy stringy green stuff otherwise known as submerged aquatic vegetation. © BCP 2010 At last! I finally connected with our swan family — Penny, her long-time mate, Tycho, and their two cygnets. I think the cygnets were hatched around May 21 or 22 — a guesstimate, since I was, […]
Penny and Tycho, our beloved swan pair, returned to their home at Ashbridge’s Bay over the weekend. They had been gone for weeks, put off, no doubt, by the lack of access to their preferred food source, subaquatic vegetation. With the Coatsworth Cut completely frozen over, and the inner bay around the yacht club the […]
The video below was taken last March after I witnessed a dramatic swan fight that I truly believed was a matter of life and death. The event began when a young male swan materialized in the Coatsworth Cut of Ashbridge’s Bay and proceeded to check out our female swan, Penny. Penny’s mate, Tycho, immediately flew into […]
Here are “our beauties,” as my friend Egon calls the Ashbridge’s Bay swan pair, out on a perfect June day with their eight babies. The cygnets were born, I think, on June 7th, so here they are still VERY young! Only five days old. . . Six at the very most. You can see that […]
