[DJ MacWoW]

Cute pics but those swans are nasty.

[GovernmentShrinker]

She’ll be nasty to you if you try to go near her babies. But she sure isn’t nasty to them.

[Flycatcher]

Cute pics but those swans are nasty

Especially that species. That's the mute swan, a Eurasian native (which is why these pics come from Britain).

However, the mute swan has been introduced in America and has taken hold in certain places -- particularly the northeast seaboard and southern Lake Michigan. They are a VERY aggressive species. I much prefer our native tundra and trumpeter swans.