OVANDO — An enchanted Susie Maclin clutched the trumpeter swan cygnet in her arms, moments before releasing it into Jones Lake on the Rolling Stone Ranch Thursday morning. “I can feel his heart beat,” ...
Cygnets’ flight feathers — 10 of them on each wing — take 90 to 100 days to grow after they hatch. So in recent years, the trumpeters were kept until they were about a year old and their flight ...