.…. the good news is the remaining two cygnets, which went ‘missing’ over two weeks ago, presumed killed, re-appeared last Monday week ‘hanging their heads in shame’! As they are not able to fly yet they had probably been walked through to Lily Loch some one hundred metres west of Corby and failed to return with their parents! So at present we are back to two surviving out of the original six!
… sadly there is now a gap where ….… these two should be. They disappeared ten days ago and have not been seen since. So all six of this years cygnets are missing presumably taken by predators.
… a young Osprey circles the Loch heading south on its long migration to Spain or North Africa for the winter. (The image is a clip from a dashcam video hence the watercolour effect!)
…. sadly one Cygnet was missing last Friday and three more missing Monday. With no bodies found death by Avian flu, which is prevalent in the area, seems unlikely and with the Cygnets coming on land it is more probable that a predator has killed them! The remaining two with the adults have returned to the far side of the Loch…… and today (Thursday) they are out in the middle!
