*Everything else I wrote earlier was accurate, but urged by local experts
to re-consider, I have realized those swans were likely all Tundra...the
young we saw through a scope were a pale gray, not dark enough to be
Trumpeter young, and the distance and perfect views of the face and beak
impossible. None were ever closer than a quarter-mile.*
--
Harry Fuller
author of: *San Francisco's Natural History: Sand Dunes to Streetcars:*
https://ecowise.wordpress.com/2017/04/20/sfnh/
author of *Great Gray Owls of CA-OR-WA*:
https://ecowise.wordpress.com/2015/05/08/the-great-gray-owl-book/
author of *Freeway Birding*: *freewaybirding.com
<http://freewaybirding.com>*
birding website: http://www.towhee.net
my birding blog: atowhee.wordpress.com