We'll contact all of those who have counted in the past, and the procedure for counting will be essentially the same as last year.
We're always looking for help in counting, if you are interested or you know of someone who is, please contact us here. If they are not computer-literate, they can still help out as we have folks who can be their cyberbuddy and do the online work for them.
This picture, which was taken today, is of one of the swans who is strangely wandering on the grass beside Mill Pond [they almost never leave the water].
It's one of the three cygnets that were born last May and has wintered in the pond.
In March, the adults start thinking about a new brood and they literally kick-out last year's crop before they start building a new nest.
This one on the lawn probably thinks his parents were 'just kidding' when they chased it out, but if things happen as in prior years, its sayonara!
The young will live together in a colony of sometimes 100's of swans [there's a small one in Popponesset Bay] and when they reach maturity in 3-4 years, will pair up and find a place of their own.
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