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05/29/2012

The Daily Beast - May 29, 2012

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Recently hatched cygnets walk beside the waters edge at Abbotsbury Swannery - the only publically accessible colony of nesting mute swans in the world - on May 11, 2012 near Weymouth, England. The arrival of the cygnets is traditionally seen as the start of summer and local traditions claim the Benedictine Monks who owned the Dorset swannery between 1000 AD and the 1540s believed the first cygnet signalled the season's first day. Abbotsbury Swannery's mute swans - up to 1,000 in total - are all free flying, and are not kept in cages. 

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