Swans, genus Cygnus, are birds of the family Anatidae, which also includes geese and ducks. This one is a pretty big…swan?
Genus Cygnus Glans
According to Wikipedia:
«Swans feed in the water and on land. They are almost entirely herbivorous, although they may eat small amounts of aquatic animals. In the water food is obtained by up-ending or dabbling, and their diet is composed of the roots, tubers, stems and leaves of aquatic and submerged plants.»
It’s unknown what’s on this particular swan’s diet, but I think I have an idea…
Wikipedia continues:
«Although swans only reach sexual maturity between 4 and 7 years of age, they can form socially monogamous pair bonds from as early as 20 months that last for many years, and in some cases these can last for life.»
Is this cock cob monogamous? I have a feeling that it’s not…
More big posts here:
- http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2012/10/12/weekly-photo-challenge-big/
- http://eagerexplorer.wordpress.com/2012/10/12/weekly-photo-challenge-big/
- http://nrhatch.wordpress.com/2012/10/12/big-bigger-biggest/
- http://lonelytravelog.com/2012/10/12/weekly-photo-challenge-big/
- http://patriciaddrury.com/2012/10/12/weekly-photo-challenge-big-xmas-tree/
- http://bopaula.wordpress.com/2012/10/12/weekly-photo-challenge-big/
EDIT: Can someone please ask Sara Rosso why my pingback and comments doesn’t appear on the dailypost-site? As you can see above, I’ve already linked to http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2012/10/12/weekly-photo-challenge-big/ but there’s no pingback and the comment I wrote there isn’t visible.. (I could have asked her myself if my comments appeared…)
Beautiful!
🙂
Great – it’s not an ugly duckling… ‘hahahaha’
I don’t know why, but I still prefer ducks 😉
Wwwwwhat, don’t know why… ‘hahahahaha’
😉
😀 😀 😀 They have more charm, perhaps?
Hehe, it’s a quite beautiful Genus Cygnus Glans 😀
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It seems to be fine 🙂 I was in a hurry to reply and to star it 😉
Thanks. I’ll add a link to your post as soon as it’s online 🙂
EDIT: Your post is online now and I’ve added a link. Nice tune. Who’s playing?
The tune in my post is by Vangelis (Ask the mountains).
I don’t see your comments under Sara’s latest post though :S
No, it’s a mystery. No pingbacks either (not on any of the blogs I’ve linked to)…
And now I just wrote comments on the blogs that pingbacked to my post, but my comments disappeared… Weird stuff.
This is annoying…. did you contact the support yet?
Yes and I got an email from them where they wrote:
“I can’t see why Akismet would be catching your comments so I need to ask you to complete the form linked below.”
I filled out the form and I’ll hopefully get an answer within the next couple of days or sometime next week (since it’s the weekend now).
Bureaucracy again – yuck….
I found out the problem, same thing as last time.
grrrr last night I found your pingback in my spam and I unspammed it. They should get their act together… this can be frustrating. Have a nice week CG!
It’s very annoying. Probably it’s the same bitch and her friend like last time. Maybe I’ll take vengeance and make sure she’ll get the same treatment…? It’s also really annoying that WordPress/Akismet can let other bloggers behave like that. At least they should have sent a warning or checked into things before they block someone’s account like that…
Of course they should.. but what is her reason for doing so?
Probably it’s a combination between bearing a grudge and being a cunt.
😀 😀 😀
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Hahahah, you’re a superior mind…..
Thanks 😀
Nice composition..I swear I see a big dick..must be just me?
The cock’n’ball swan.
LOVE IT!
Would you mind checking your spam comment folder and let me know if there’s a message from me that’s ended up there or not? I seem to be either ending up in people’s spam, or experiencing technical difficulties (again).
yes I will try – I have never done so…
Yes your comment was there..Oslo- such a lovely word. I want to see it!
Thanks for checking 🙂 Now I know.
OMG.
How cool, and a bit naughty.
Yes, definitely naughty. Sometimes I feed birds, but I’m not quite sure if I have got anything to offer this swan…
Such grace and beauty! Here is the pickled green tomato recipe I forgot to send:
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/michael-symon/pickled-green-tomatoes-recipe/index.html
Thanks! Perfect timing! I bought tiny red and tiny yellow tomatoes yesterday and the plan is to pickle them, so I’ll try this recipe: it’ll probably work for any type of tomato.
Seriously, there was a weekly photo challenge called Big Swan? Honestly, people will graffiti anything nowadays – water, good God.
Haha, no, no. The theme of the photo challenge was “big”. ‘Big swan’ would have been to narrow as a theme for a photo challenge.
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CZ, naughty, naughty you… 😉
Bwohaha! Nice one!
Swans can be really big and nasty: this “one” just looks really big! It’s the kind of sculpture little old ladies without their glasses wander by and go “Margaret, is that a …. no, it can’t be…. oh dear! what is the world coming to…” Thanks for the laugh.
Haha, I can imagine that! 😀
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Leda and the Swan is a story and subject in art from Greek mythology in which the god Zeus, in the form of a swan, seduces , Leda.
Thank you for the explanation.