Three mute swan cygnets huddle together before taking a nap.

A family of Trumpeter Swans in flight on a late winter evening.

This trumpeter swan was coming in for a landing on the east side of the lake during the golden hour but changed its mind at the last minute and banked up and right, then decided to land a little further south on the lake. Captured earlier this year in McHenry County, Illinois.

A trumpeter swan fans its beautiful wings in the afternoon sun of a late winter day earlier this year. The snowy-white plumage of the trumpeter swan is stunning, along with the six foot wingspan of our largest native waterfowl in North America.

Two trumpeter swans pass each other while leisurely paddling around a lake earlier this year. For those familiar with Dr. Dolittle, the pushmi-pullyu is a gazelle/unicorn cross with two heads at opposite ends of its body. Using your imagination, you could see these two swans as a type of pushmi-pullyu swan due to the angle of the capture. But, just in our imagination . . .

Two Trumpeter Swans bank to the south during the golden hour of an early March evening. They were so beautiful and graceful as they flew a couple of circles over a lake in McHenry County, Illinois.