In 1944, 1970, and 1971 cygnets (baby swans) made their home on Lake LaVerne. In August 2012, five trumpeter swan cygnets were released in restored wetlands. Mother and Father Swan, with their little cygnets, coast across a pond. The duckling feels sorry for himself until a mother swan and her cygnets approach him. After hatching, the cygnets are tended by the parents for about 9 months until fledging. The cygnets hatch after about 36 days and have a grey or brown plumage. The white cygnets have a leucistic gene. Also, unlike most wildfowl, both parents regularly carry the cygnets on their backs. On 3 October 1940, a German incendiary bomb destroyed production of Cygnets and Albemarle sections. Xu Nuo proposes to his friends that they perform the Dance of the Cygnets themselves. Cygnets (immature birds) are a greyish-brown with pale-edged feathers. The cygnets can fly at an age of 120 to 150 days.