I really hope these f*cken cowards get their feathers plucked.
http://www.lfpress.com/news/london/2010/05/30/14196021.html
STRATFORD — Nature being what it is, tragedy can befall Stratford’s swans from time-to-time. They have been known to fall victim to raccoons, dogs, mink, birds of prey, snapping turtles or even other swans.
Quin Mallot, the city’s manager of forestry and parks for the past 10 years, has seen it all but even he was shaken by an act of human aggression Saturday night that took the life of one of Stratford’s swans.
The adult female swan named Angela was found floating in the Avon River this morning.
“It was an act of vandalism,” said Mallot. “If it’s an animal there are feathers and remnants of eggs and things like that. Animals just aren’t that tidy.”
In addition to the death of the swan, seven eggs from the nest were missing. According to Mallot, they were probably thrown in the river.
“We’re sure it was humans,” he added. “There were some beer bottles by the nest and there were some mailboxes tipped over further up the street. Plus some people on William St. reported hearing a commotion around where the nest is sometime after the bars closed.”
Angela and her mate Nick have a nest at the southeast corner of the William Hutt Bridge, which straddles Waterloo St. Swans are not only territorial but social as well and, Mallot said, Angela and Nick have stopped young swans from going past the William Hutt Bridge and becoming at risk of going over the R. Thomas Orr dam. Today, Nick could be seen rummaging through the nest, presumably grieving for his mate and looking for the eggs.
“It’s the first time I have seen anything like this in the 10 years I have been here,” said Mallot. “Angela would have been defenceless because she wouldn’t leave the eggs.
Stratford Beacon Herald
http://www.lfpress.com/news/london/2010/05/30/14196021.html
STRATFORD — Nature being what it is, tragedy can befall Stratford’s swans from time-to-time. They have been known to fall victim to raccoons, dogs, mink, birds of prey, snapping turtles or even other swans.
Quin Mallot, the city’s manager of forestry and parks for the past 10 years, has seen it all but even he was shaken by an act of human aggression Saturday night that took the life of one of Stratford’s swans.
The adult female swan named Angela was found floating in the Avon River this morning.
“It was an act of vandalism,” said Mallot. “If it’s an animal there are feathers and remnants of eggs and things like that. Animals just aren’t that tidy.”
In addition to the death of the swan, seven eggs from the nest were missing. According to Mallot, they were probably thrown in the river.
“We’re sure it was humans,” he added. “There were some beer bottles by the nest and there were some mailboxes tipped over further up the street. Plus some people on William St. reported hearing a commotion around where the nest is sometime after the bars closed.”
Angela and her mate Nick have a nest at the southeast corner of the William Hutt Bridge, which straddles Waterloo St. Swans are not only territorial but social as well and, Mallot said, Angela and Nick have stopped young swans from going past the William Hutt Bridge and becoming at risk of going over the R. Thomas Orr dam. Today, Nick could be seen rummaging through the nest, presumably grieving for his mate and looking for the eggs.
“It’s the first time I have seen anything like this in the 10 years I have been here,” said Mallot. “Angela would have been defenceless because she wouldn’t leave the eggs.
Stratford Beacon Herald
