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Animal Kingdom Comes to Bloomfield Hills

Our neighbor across the street called last night...."Open your front door" she said. We did....and what we saw made our jaws drop. Not because of what we saw, swans, we see those all of the time....JUST NOT IN OUR FRONT YARD and with a clutch of cygnets in tow. We watched as they made it to the neighborhood across the street but much to our dismay, there was one baby that had gotten left behind. He came running down my driveway trying to find his family and we were worried about him crossing the big roads by himself. So our neighbor kids gently corralled the baby and my husband Chuck shooed the baby into a laundry basket without touching him. The last two blurry pics are of them taking the baby across the street to meet up with his family before they went into the lake. Luckily this was done quickly before the adult swans felt it necessary to protect their family.
We opened our front door - not expecting this site!
We opened our front door - not expecting this site!
They started their trek....
They started their trek....
Mom & Dad knew where they were going.
Mom & Dad knew where they were going.
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Swans-013.jpg
Thankfully people were not tearing into our neighborhood.
Thankfully people were not tearing into our neighborhood.
Cars do not bother this family!
Cars do not bother this family!
Can you see the little, lone cygnet?
Can you see the little, lone cygnet?
Helping the little guy find his family.
Helping the little guy find his family.