About a half an hour from our house is a small park, in a residential area. It's where a large flock of trumpeter swans live along the Mississippi River. If you've never seen a trumpeter swan, they're quite a bird. They're about 25 pounds with black beaks and a call like a trumpet. A woman who lives along the river started feeding a few trumpeter swans in the winter, and pretty soon she had a flock of up to 1500 swans coming to eat at her place! She's called, 'The Swan Lady.' Everyday she goes out her back door and fills buckets with corn for them. And everyday handfuls of people come to this little park to check out the flock of swans that winter in her backyard.Monday, January 18, 2010
A winter favorite
About a half an hour from our house is a small park, in a residential area. It's where a large flock of trumpeter swans live along the Mississippi River. If you've never seen a trumpeter swan, they're quite a bird. They're about 25 pounds with black beaks and a call like a trumpet. A woman who lives along the river started feeding a few trumpeter swans in the winter, and pretty soon she had a flock of up to 1500 swans coming to eat at her place! She's called, 'The Swan Lady.' Everyday she goes out her back door and fills buckets with corn for them. And everyday handfuls of people come to this little park to check out the flock of swans that winter in her backyard.
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