Since rescuing the Swans a few days ago I have been checking Flash, Snow and Cygnets are all safe and up to Friday they were and on Saturday evening we spotted the Lifeless body of a Cygnet or Gosling but we could not be sure but to confirm we decided on looking for the family to be 100%.
After a 10 minute walk we found the family and unfortunately there were only 7 so we have lost 1 cygnet and I don't know why the cygnet died whether to a predator or injured by a dog until I can find and check for any suspicious injuries on the Cygnet I won't know. Luckily saving the other 2 gave the family a better chance and if we had not had intervened then there would be only 5 instead of 7 but that's nature and sometimes there's things you can help with and other times you have to let Nature take it's coarse and as I can't be there 24/7 it was bound to happen due to there being so many dangers around them and the worst being man.
A few photographs from a kayaking trip before the family was down by one
After a 10 minute walk we found the family and unfortunately there were only 7 so we have lost 1 cygnet and I don't know why the cygnet died whether to a predator or injured by a dog until I can find and check for any suspicious injuries on the Cygnet I won't know. Luckily saving the other 2 gave the family a better chance and if we had not had intervened then there would be only 5 instead of 7 but that's nature and sometimes there's things you can help with and other times you have to let Nature take it's coarse and as I can't be there 24/7 it was bound to happen due to there being so many dangers around them and the worst being man.
A few photographs from a kayaking trip before the family was down by one
Scratching that itch
and special moment as they kept coming over and tapping on my kayak like there mum and dad
Mike
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