Dear Martha and Tweeters,

A colleague at school told me something about a swan
today, and I am puzzled by it.

She said that the swans have a hard time gaining
altitude when they fly out of Lake Sixteen (in the
foothills east of Mount Vernon and Conway, Skagit
County). Twice now, swans have struck trees and become
entangled in branches. Eventually, each bird flopped
down from the trees, landing in someone's back yard.
The road there is too short for the swans to use as a
take-off runway, so the birds (single swans in each of
the two cases) ended up waddling away through people's
yards. One of the birds that tried to take off from
the road hit a phone wire and tumbled into a yard a
second time, before waddling off.

I am guessing that only a sick or injured swan would
be clumsy enough to fly into the branches of a tree
and become entangled in them. Is that so, or is this
tree-entanglement a frequent happening?

Yours truly,

Gary Bletsch


Yours truly,

Gary Bletsch

near Lyman (Skagit County), Washington

garybletsch at yahoo.com




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