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Birding Wire subscriber and photo contributor Kristina Smith of Fremont, Ohio captured this image of a Trumpeter swan and its cygnets using her Nikon Coolpix L830 at Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge in Oak Harbor, Ohio on July 9.

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