I haven't seen the cygnets around on the river for a while, so I asked another lady who walks her dog around the same time that I take Islay down to the river bank. She knows just about everything about the wildlife and plants along there.
The answer was not what I wanted to hear.
"They've been shot," she said. "All four of them. Boys. If I could get hold of them, I'd shoot them!"
Brain (with Belle and Denzel) found one of the cygnets shot through the head on the Radnorshire side of the Wye on the Offa's Dyke path a few weeks ago.
ReplyDeleteB*****ds whoever did it.