The word from the waters

By Observer Staff
| 4:00 a.m. May 16, 2012

Longboat Key
Neighbors

April 30 marked the birthday of four cygnets produced by swan parents, Alan and Beverly. And, after a long wait, Stan left Wendy at the nest to swim in the waters near the nest. Swankeeper David Novak originally took this as a sign of possible egg infertility. But Wednesday, May 9, at least two cygnets from Wendy and Stan’s nest hatched.