My husband likes to tell the story when him and his dad went out duck hunting one time. . they got out in their boat right before daylight to get ready and got going on the water when they ran into some giant monster with their boat. . it was a great big swan! Said it almost came up in the boat with them and beat the heck out of them with its wings!may i come steal wickett?
it hurt like heck at the time! they try to break you into pieces with their wings and DONT get near their bills! and they can run! REALLY FAST, luckily they dont go far from the nest
it actually turned out sad because none of the cygnets made it, it was a really hot spring and there were a ton of flies and they wouldnt let us close enough to spray around their shelter and we lost all the babies to the flies. I think we also lost Gretel that summer too and Hansel a couple years later
