Lake Effects and the Trumpeter Swan

by Janette Boyd

Title

Lake Effects and the Trumpeter Swan

Artist

Janette Boyd

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Photograph - Photo/texture/digital

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Photo of preening Trumpeter Swan, our largest waterfowl during a snowstorm. Additional texture of snow was added to original image, using Corel Paintshop's techniques of blending and brushes.

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Lake-effect snow is produced during cooler atmospheric conditions when a cold air mass moves across long expanses of warmer lake water, warming the lower layer of air which picks up water vapor from the lake, rises up through the colder air above, freezes and is deposited on the leeward (downwind) shores.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake-effect_snow

Trumpeter Swans demand superlatives: they are our biggest native waterfowl, stretching to 6 feet in length and weighing more than 25 pounds almost twice as massive as a Tundra Swan. Getting airborne requires a lumbering takeoff along a 100-yard runway. Despite their size, this once-endangered, now recovering species is as elegant as any swan, with a graceful neck and snowy-white plumage. They breed on wetlands in remote Alaska, Canada, and the northwestern U.S., and winter on ice-free coastal and inland waters.
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Trumpeter_Swan/id

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December 18th, 2016

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