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#Cygnusolor

Look, a #SundaySwan, which is #NotADuck

#MuteSwan #Swan #CygnusOlor #DuckOfTheDay #BirdsSeenIn2026 #Birding #Birds #HolmeFen #TheGreatFen

A big white mute swan swimming with its neck tilted to one side and head turned down, coyly.

It is #TwoDuckTuesday, but these are #Swans - a swan is #NotADuck

#MuteSwan #Swan #CygnusOlor #DuckOfTheDay #BirdsSeenIn2026 #Birding #Birds

Two gracious white swans swimming down a narrow, shallow stream with waterlogged grass on one side and long scruffy yellowing reeds on the other

The #SundaySwan seems to be trying to creep up on these fine ducks.

#MuteSwan #Swan #CygnusOlor #Duck #DuckOfTheDay #Mallard #AnasPlatyrhynchos #BirdsSeenIn2024 #UrbanBirding #LowCarbonBirding #Birding #Birds

The Saturday swan is sad because it can’t find its duck. True story.

#SaturdaySwan #WeekendWaterbird #MuteSwan #Swan #CygnusOlor #DuckOfTheDay #BirdsSeenIn2025 #UrbanBirding #LowCarbonBirding #Birding #Birds

A white swan swimming along with its head and neck bent at an odd and inquisitive angle, making it seem like it is looking for something and not very happy.

It is #FourDuckFriday, I think - the days are getting hard to track. So, pick your four ducks from this selection and they are the #DuckOfTheDay. Mind the geese and swans though as they are #NotADuck.

#Duck #Wigeon #AnasPenelope #Goose #CanadaGoose #BrantaCanadensis #MuteSwan #Swan #CygnusOlor #DuckOfTheDay

A part-frozen marsh lagoon with mud in the foreground and reeds in the background. It is littered with a mixture of wigeon, canada geese and mute swans.

#FourDuckFriday accepts the allegiance of this understandably overawed swan.

#Duck #DuckOfTheDay #Gadwall #AnasStrepera #MuteSwan #Swan #CygnusOlor #BirdsSeenIn2025 #UrbanBirding #LowCarbonBirding #Birding #Birds

A big white mute swan bows its head and dips its bill in the water humbly as four magnificent, but smaller, gadwall swim by.

#BirdOfTheDay : les cygnes #Swans
Celui-ci était en train de chercher à manger.
#Photography #Bird #Birds #Nature #UnJourUnePhoto #Birding #CygnusOlor #MuteSwan #CoteDAzur #BirdPhotography

Presque au centre de la photo, un cygne blanc au cou replié en forme de S et au bec plongé dans l’eau d’un marécage. Les berges ornées de roseaux et de joncs de mer. L’eau calme reflète la verdure et le blond des roseaux environnants. Le reflet du cygne est légèrement troublé en dessous de lui.

#BirdOfTheDay : les cygnes #Swans
Celui-ci était en train de chercher à manger.
#Photography #Bird #Birds #Nature #UnJourUnePhoto #Birding #CygnusOlor #MuteSwan #CoteDAzur #BirdPhotography

Presque au centre de la photo, un cygne blanc au cou replié en forme de S et au bec plongé dans l’eau d’un marécage. Les berges ornées de roseaux et de joncs de mer. L’eau calme reflète la verdure et le blond des roseaux environnants. Le reflet du cygne est légèrement troublé en dessous de lui.

The White Swan in the Black Water

Like the hoot of a coot, this one was a difficult shoot. The swan floated in near darkness — the kind that tricks even the most advanced metering systems. The white of its feathers reflected light so intensely that every automatic setting wanted to blow out the highlights. So, back to full manual it was.

Shot in Park Sonsbeek in Arnhem with my Canon 5D Mark IV and Sigma 100–400, I carefully balanced the exposure — 1/250 s, f/6.3, ISO 12800. A few test frames later, I found the sweet spot where the white plumage stayed detailed without losing the subtle ripples in the near-black water.

A bit of contrast, a touch of color correction, and that was it. The rest is natural — the quiet precision of light meeting patience. Sometimes photography feels less like taking a picture and more like measuring reality in fractions of a second.

Photography, after all, is just another way of studying light and life.

#Photography #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #Swan #EurasianSwan #Cygnusolor #Canon5DMarkIV #Sigma100400 #ManualMode #ExposureControl #Contrast #LightAndShadow #LowLightPhotography #NatureObservation #WildlifePhotography #DutchNature #ParkSonsbeek #Arnhem #NatureInTheNetherlands #BirdWatching #PhotoTechnique #FieldPhotography #PhotographyTips #DocumentaryPhotography #ScientificObservation #NaturalBeauty #AnimalBehavior #UrbanWildlife #PatienceInPhotography #LightStudy #LearningPhotography #DutchPhotographer #WildlifeEncounters #NatureLovers #OnTheField #FieldNotes #CanonPhotography #SigmaArtLens #ByMaikeldeBakker #MaikeldeBakkerPhotography

The #SundaySwan has architecture and everything.

#MuteSwan #Swan #CygnusOlor #DuckOfTheDay #UrbanBirding #LowCarbonBirding #Birding #Birds

A mute swan, the sterotypical big white swan with a curved neck and an orange bill, swimming up river a moment away from disappearing behind a sandstone retaining wall that has small blocks, a lip/ledge above them and a big block with a kind of border thing around it, that forms part of the riverbank.

The #SundaySwan is seeing to its appearance, not because it is vain but because it is trying to make up for the fact that it is #NotADuck.

#MuteSwan #Swan #CygnusOlor #DuckOfTheDay #BirdsSeenIn2025 #UrbanBirding #LowCarbonBirding #Birding #Birds

A big white swan standing in shadows, with dappled light falling on its flank as it bends its neck to preen the front of that wing with its orange bill.

Unfortunately the #SundaySwan has displaced these ducks.

#MuteSwan #Swan #CygnusOlor #Duck #DuckOfTheDay #Mallard #AnasPlatyrhynchos #BirdsSeenIn2025 #UrbanBirding #LowCarbonBirding #Birding #Birds

On a pond in a grassy park with a bench on the far side, a mute swan swims forward, a dozen ducks moving away before it

Sunday swan looks a bit manky, but I guess that’s teenagers for you.

#SundaySwan #SwanSunday #WeekendWaterbird #MuteSwan #Swan #CygnusOlor #DuckOfTheDay #BirdsSeenIn2025 #UrbanBirding #LowCarbonBirding #Birding #Birds

A near-adult mute swan, mostly white with patches of scruffy browny-grey juvenile featehrs still and a dark bill swimming on shiny reflective water.

The Sunday Swan is not a duck. All photographs that are not of a duck should use the hashtag #NotADuck

#MuteSwan #Swan #CygnusOlor #DuckOfTheDay #BirdsSeenIn2023 #UrbanBirding #LowCarbonBirding #Birding #Birds

A white mute swan in classic swan-pose with its neck held in an elegant swan-neck shape, floating gently under the branches of a tree.

About a month ago, I met this family of mute swans while I was trying to photograph people eFoiling in the water. It looked like the swans were not impressed with their antics.

#muteswan
#cygnusolor
#helsinki
#finland
#august
#summer

A photo of a family of swans preening their feathers on a rock at the water's edge in August.

#SundaySwan, incoming!

#MuteSwan #Swan #CygnusOlor #BirdsSeenIn2025 #UrbanBirding #LowCarbonBirding #Birding #Birds

A big white mute swan swimming straight at the photographer in stereotypical swan pose, wings curled up like a “swan boat" ride

🦢 Mute swan, Knobbel zwaan, Cygnus olor 🦢

#nikoncoolpixp900 #muteswan #swan #cygnusolor

These two pristine swans came up to me (well, one did, the other hung back) when I went to take my usual photo from footbridge. It's the first time I've seen them on the big allotment pond. Unfortunately, I didn't have my duck food on me 😞 #MuteSwans #CygnusOlor #Swans #Allotments #Kent #England | #birdsoftheworld #birds

Two mute swans (Cygnus olor) making a beeline towards me. Sadly I didn't have anything on me to feed them. I must always remember to bring my duck treats with me! 🙂

A close-up of the bravest of the two swans 😍

The same swan as in the previous photo, but this time from side-on.

The view from the bridge of the side of the pond the swans were. You can see the shy one just going out of shot, bottom left 😍

This is the #SundaySwan

#MuteSwan #CygnusOlor #Swan #BirdsSeenIn2025 #UrbanBirding #LowCarbonBirding #Birding #Birds

A white swan on dark water with a striking reflection, in front of some vivid green lily pads

It must be Sunday again, as there's a #SundaySwan.

#Swan #MuteSwan #CygnusOlor #LowCarbonBirding #UrbanBirding #Birding #Birds

A mute swan standing in shallow water facing to one side. There's a colour ring on its leg just above the water.

A close up of the swan's coloured leg ring, which is orange with the code 4BRK in black.

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