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    </div><p id="52f1">So I felt incredibly lucky when my partner and I saw yet another flock of cygnets with their parents at another gorgeous area by a lake in northern Italy just a week later.</p><figure id="ddaa"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*4xihQI07uqzeqUZPPURzzg.jpeg"><figcaption>Photo by KL Simmons</figcaption></figure><p id="2d00"><b>There was such a mix of different types of birds that it warmed my heart and made me smile from ear to ear seeing them all get along.</b></p><p id="65ef"><i>Humans could take a lesson or two from them…</i></p><figure id="036e"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*skawiVQ-bh06yVMe9zGDrw.jpeg"><figcaption>Photo by KL Simmons</figcaption></figure><p id="3905">When we went back to one of the lake areas where we saw the first flock of baby swans, we saw that the babies had grown up and were “adolescents”.</p><figure id="3184"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*U_b7_D8kljucXQpZWkPhAQ.jpeg"><figcaption>Photo by KL Simmons</figcaption></figure><p id="cd8e">The other ducks seemed to be “teenagers” as well and were hilariously walking around altogether, following each other in this huge group exploring the area while scavenging for food.</p><figure id="8d6b"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*CtSUDDJN3nPDS2pzGXDmVw.jpeg"><figcaption>Photo by KL Simmons</figcaption></figure><p id="6b16">The last heart-melting babies I saw last year as a result of spring baby fever 2021 were 2 outdoor kittens that ran all around the place I stayed on Krk Island in Croatia last July.</p><h1 id="0194">This is how they showed up at my door.</h1><figure id="9209"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*dKFX1AKSuWDpPmVduEYGLg.jpeg"><figcaption>Photo by KL Simmons</figcaption></figure><p id="df77">I fell in love with them <b><i>IMMEDIATELY.</i></b></p><p id="e010">The ginger one on the left I named <i>“Big Man”</i> and the tabby one on the right I named <i>“Little Girl”</i>.</p><figure id="4a52"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*-XqIbJZJzaaGah82Y-MSQw.jpeg"><figcaption>Photo by KL Simmons</figcaption></figure><p id="f1cb"><b>Just looking at their photos makes me miss them terribly…</b></p><p id="c6de">We stayed at that place for 2 weeks and during the second week, they slept in the chair outside of our place almost every night.</p><figure id="0dca"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*C3H_y1smg7lj_BNK0TMOaA.jpeg"><figcaption>Photo by KL Simmons</figcaption></figure><p id="05ea"><b>Clearly, I am an animal lover and I am looking forward to seeing all the babies come this Spring Fever 2022!</b></p><p id="44c3"><i>How about you?</i></p><figure id="66e9"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/0*2LNir2YFGA8m7IBV"><figcaption>Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@pumplekin?utm_source=medium&amp;utm_medium=r

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Spring Fever Means Spring Babies For Me To Find And Fawn Over

These are my kind of babies — making me giddy and melt for hours on end

One of my best photos with 5 tiny baby duckies! Photo by KL Simmons

The photo above and the photo below were taken last spring in Parco Sempione, a famous city park that extends north from the center of Milan, Italy.

They are the cutest tings (cute spelling intended) ever!

Today I came across those photos of the adorably tiny baby duckies when I dug into my archives in order to remember the exact date that I landed in Italy last year.

It’s been almost a year since that time and it excited me to think back to those days last spring,

I felt this giddy excitement while remembering all the babies I saw!

These baby donkeys (yes, that’s the correct spelling) are the first of their kind I’ve ever seen. They were chillin’, eating grass by a man-made lake that people used for fishing.

That was during my 6 weeks in Erba, Italy during the second half of spring.

However, it was the baby swans that took my breath away.

They’re uncommon to see, which I learned later, and they are yet another group of babies I had never had the honor to lay my eyes upon prior to that time.

They looked incredibly soft….

It took all my might to not try to pick them up.

Check out the dragonfly at the top of the photo.

Baby swans are called cygnets, which is derived from the Old French “cigne” meaning swan and originally from the Latin cygnus. The word cygnet for a baby swan is not to be confused with the word signet for a ring with letters carved into it.

Around 50% of cygnets fail to survive longer than 2 to 3 months, and a further 25% are likely to die before adulthood. Swans that do survive go on to live long lives exceeding 20 years. Most cygnets die through predation, disease and parasites.

Baby Swans: All You Need To Know (With Pictures)

This article will delve into baby swans, or cygnets, as well as their looks, behaviours and other characteristics. What…

birdfact.com

So I felt incredibly lucky when my partner and I saw yet another flock of cygnets with their parents at another gorgeous area by a lake in northern Italy just a week later.

There was such a mix of different types of birds that it warmed my heart and made me smile from ear to ear seeing them all get along.

Humans could take a lesson or two from them…

When we went back to one of the lake areas where we saw the first flock of baby swans, we saw that the babies had grown up and were “adolescents”.

The other ducks seemed to be “teenagers” as well and were hilariously walking around altogether, following each other in this huge group exploring the area while scavenging for food.

The last heart-melting babies I saw last year as a result of spring baby fever 2021 were 2 outdoor kittens that ran all around the place I stayed on Krk Island in Croatia last July.