Haha, j'ai retrouvé des photos prises avec une copine dans la ville qui a servi de lieu de tournage pour la série #Deadloch, #Cygnet, en Tasmanie, le premier janvier 2013. 😎

#Australie

Black Swan baby is no longer an ugly duckling!

Back in November, I posted some pictures of a lone Black Swan cygnet with its parents. The baby was actually very cute, not an ugly duckling at all, unless you’re a duck, I guess. Since then, I’ve been keeping an eye on the young family and hoping that the little one makes it through its first difficult months. So far, so good.

Here’s the little one in December, just a few weeks after I first saw it:

It’s very small next to its parents, and doesn’t look much like a swan:

Now we’re in early February, three months after I first saw the baby, and what a difference! The little one is nearly the size of its parents and already looks more like a swan than a bundle of fluff:

Black Swans face several dangers: foxes, dogs, getting snagged and injured by fishing line, boats, and pollution. I don’t know how many there were in the brood, but it’s great to see one youngster doing well.

This video from December shows the little one bravely battling the choppy waters of the dam where they live. If you listen carefully, you’ll hear the cygnet cheeping continually. The rushing sound is the wind:

https://youtu.be/RFOJDtABd9s

Now, in February, the youngster sails majestically around the adult birds. The noisy birds off-camera are Rainbow Lorikeets:

https://youtu.be/v935KE0Mscc

Common name: Black Swan
Scientific name: Cygnus atratus
Approximate length of adult bird: 120 cm
Date spotted: 3 February 2026 (summer)
Approximate location: Sydney’s Northern Beaches, New South Wales, Australia

#australia #birds #birdwatching #BlackSwan #cygnet #Swan #SydneyBirds #waterbirds

Baby Swan in front. Now as big as Mummy who is still very close at all times.

#Birds #Swan #iPhone #Photography #Schwan #Cygnet #JungSchwan

Okay, this is a #car for #Leather #fetishists!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh-0vOOcBxU&t=773s

#AstonMartin #Cygnet #fetish #leather #LeatherFetish #smell

THE OUTDOOR MUSEUM…
The presence of the past. Look around, and you see it here and there in farmers fields, in the cities and in rural towns.

Here, near the southeastern Tasmanian town of Cygnet, lie relics of the Industrial Revolution, the age of steam power and the coming of the gasoline engine — the time of mechanical machines, the time that made us what we are now.

A rusting traction engine with its big fly wheel decays through the decades next to an early gasoline powered road roller. The traction engine was built by a London company. The road roller is Australian from back in the time when such things were made in this country.

And there they pass the years and the decades, relics of a time when we learned to turn thermal energy into mechanical energy and the long tail of technology that leads to where we are now.

#Tasmania #Cygnet #Technology #machines #IndustrialRevolution

Cygnus olor (Mute swan / Höckerschwan)

#birds #birdsofmastodon #birdphotography #nature #wildlife #birdwatching #swan #Schwan #Federsee #cygnet