Swan's Eggs Taken at Ackers Pitt

Mr Cholmondeley-Corker (PaSC) · May 13, 2014

Some **** has taken all the swan's eggs from the nest at Ackers Pitt in Stockton Heath. It was on the news this morning.

(It's a Warrington Anglers Water)

What bastrads would do such a thing?????

hunters moon · May 13, 2014

Mr Cholmondeley-Corker (PaSC) said:
Some **** has taken all the swan's eggs from the nest at Ackers Pitt in Stockton Heath. It was on the news this morning.

(It's a Warrington Anglers Water)

What bastrads would do such a thing?????

I would cut their hands off:

Paul Boote · May 13, 2014

There are some headcases out there, and not just the usual Yob / EE suspects. A few years ago some very well-heeled and well-educated types were sounding off in posh public about the number of swans on the southern chalkstreams (yes, really, they were), saying that said swans were eating all the vital-to-the-wellbeing of flylife (and their expensive trout) ranunculus.

Watch out for my new book, "Paul Boote's Pocket Guide to Predators". Volume 1: Self-Interested Blinkered Idiots.

Mr Cholmondeley-Corker (PaSC) · May 13, 2014

Blimey, they took the male swan too!!!!

Story here

terry m · May 13, 2014

That will make it easy for the authorities to track down the perpetrator.

They simply need to look for someone with a broken arm!

thecrow · May 13, 2014

perhaps the Queen has them, they are her birds.

sagalout · May 13, 2014

What evidence is there that a person has taken them? Could there be another explanation?

Mr Cholmondeley-Corker (PaSC) · May 13, 2014

er...they are not there anymore.

Are you suggesting that the male swan has found a big bag and run off with the kids?

Alien abduction?

The eggs and swan dissolved without a trace?

And various signs around the place have been ripped down and taken....

What's you explanation sagalout?

Peter Jacobs · May 13, 2014

It appears that the metal warning signs have also disappeared as well as the male swan and the eggs.

Although circumstantial the evidence would point to human intervention.

If so then you have to wonder what sort of person would even contemplate this let alone carry it out?

this thread prompted me to look further, and it appears it is now almost commonplace!

http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/01/18/someone-is-kidnapping-and-eating-britains-swans/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn...over-fears-birds-are-being-stolen-to-eat.html

I hope when apprehended that there are some long terms of imprisonment handed down!

Bar-stewards!

Lord Paul of Sheffield · May 13, 2014

make you think how they got the male swan with out any signs of a struggler - feather everywhere?

sagalout · May 13, 2014

Mr Cholmondeley-Corker (PaSC) said:
What's you explanation sagalout?

I don't have one I was simply asking a question.

thecrow · May 13, 2014

Don't know why anyone should want to eat the cob, they taste awful.

sumtime · May 13, 2014

£5.000 fine or six months in jail, same for stealing the egg, nowhere near long enough. I (and maybe most of you) have my own ideas who these cretins could be but I reckon the penalty would be far less than I stated.

greenie62 · May 13, 2014

At a local lodge, it was found to be local foxes who were prone to sneak through the reeds and attack the egg-sitter whether cob or pen!

thecrow · May 13, 2014

sagalout said:
What evidence is there that a person has taken them? Could there be another explanation?

Could be that otters have taken both.

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Lord Paul of Sheffield said:
make you think how they got the male swan with out any signs of a struggler - feather everywhere?

Wouldn't be a struggle, swans are all bluff.

Mr Cholmondeley-Corker (PaSC) · May 13, 2014

An otter with a big bag and a crime scene clean up team...

greenie62 · May 13, 2014

At least nobody's blaming us scousers - for a change!

Mr Cholmondeley-Corker (PaSC) · May 13, 2014

It might have been a scouser - no one has ruled scousers out as far as I'm aware

no-one in particular · May 13, 2014

I have a few times come across loads of swan feathers lying about in a field. No trace of the swan at all. I assume its a fox has got them at night. Handy for loads of quills mind you. Depending on where the nest is built I imagine foxes would go for the eggs of a swan. big tasty meal for them. Do foxes swim ?

greenie62 · May 13, 2014

no one has ruled scousers out as far as I'm aware

Alright la'
I'll give you a line bite on that one! - Not swallowing it though!!

:thumbs:

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