Trumpeter Swan (Cygnus buccinator)

                                                                                                                   Photo by Barry Wallace

Dufferin Street ~ south of Hwy. 9

This splendid Trumpeter Swan was photographed on one of the smaller, roadside, private ponds in the hamlet of Glenville.   This week's lovely weather makes this photo look like a summertime picture rather than one taken in mid-November.   Bird writer and illustrator, David Allen Sibley, says the Trumpeter Swan's gentle, lower-pitched, slightly hoarse, nasal honking is like the honking of a European taxicab,   whereas Don and Lillian Stokes, in their Field Guide to the Birds of North America, say the Trumpeter's voice is much like short trumpet toots, tootoot tootootoot.

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Barry Wallace