From my daughter’s nature journal in 2009.

Tundra Swans of Virginia-

While in Virginia we’ve had the unique opportunity to visit Turndra Swans through out the winter. Since winters are fairly mild here it was easy to go out for a hike to our favorite park and view the swans in action. They migrate here ever winter from the Tundra.

Here are some new photos of our swan friends. This time we saw a few more swans. But these two (one is hidden a bit behind the trees) have remained always present.

It seems the signets are on their own and that the mates we first saw are alone now. The two mates seem to be staying in a particular area on the lake and have been found there all three times we have visited.
There have been additional tundra swans and so it will be interesting to see if they all remain on site for the winter or if they move on.
We did see other signets recognizable by the gray still present in their feathers, but it is difficult to say if the four we first saw were a family for sure or not and if perhaps these two are the signets we first saw. It is all together possible they are different signets.

Signets are recognizable by the gray still present in their feathers.

The Bird Notebook Pages I’ve created have a few pages for swans. If you prefer to have your child filling in his observations on notebook pages instead of a journal you might like them!