Spending time in Mandurah this week

You have seen the snake, here is a pair of Black Swans swimming past.
The hammering noise is courtesy of a pile driver working on a duplicate bridge across the estuary.
Black Swans on the Mandurah Estuary
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meggie · F

If you google Dawlish in Devon UK, there are black Swans there. I think they are probably Australian as we rarely see the black ones here.

Gusman · 61-69, M

@meggie I had a quick look.
The Black Swans were originally bought there from Australia in 1906.
That line eventually died out.
In the late 1940s a Captain CRS Pitman, a game warden in Uganda, presented a new line of black swans to the town as a gift in memory of his parents. They had to be specially ordered from Taronga Zoo in Sydney.

meggie · F

@Gusman as i thought. They are Australian swans. A few years ago they deported a few back to Australia as they became too aggressive. The ones in Dawlish seemed ok though. See if you can download the bird app on your phone for free called Merlin. It's great.

Gusman · 61-69, M

Here is a video taken 30 minutes ago at Coodanup Reserve.
51 Black Swans.
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