where have the baby swans gone?

foggy_lad

I was walking along by the burrin the other day and there were 5 baby swans or cygnets to use the proper word. Today there was only two left!! Has someone been eating them? Are the people of carlow so ignorant and self absorbed they can't look after a few swans on this dirty awful eyesore of a river flowing through the centre of town?

patrickc

foggy_lad wrote: »

I was walking along by the burrin the other day and there were 5 baby swans or cygnets to use the proper word. Today there was only two left!! Has someone been eating them? Are the people of carlow so ignorant and self absorbed they can't look after a few swans on this dirty awful eyesore of a river flowing through the centre of town?

if your so concerned why arn't you down minding them 24/7? it's possible a rat could have eaten them either.

theres 5/6 on the barrow at lanigans lock, so possibly they made their way there or something.

tombull82

They grew up. Now they are just Big Swans..

Yeah I would say Pat is right, They may have just been off exploring when you passed..

ShayK1

foggy_lad wrote: »

I was walking along by the burrin the other day and there were 5 baby swans or cygnets to use the proper word. Today there was only two left!! Has someone been eating them? Are the people of carlow so ignorant and self absorbed they can't look after a few swans on this dirty awful eyesore of a river flowing through the centre of town?

Why is it the people of Carlow's job to look after a few cygnets? Don't they have Parents?

racso1975

ShayK1 wrote: »

Why is it the people of Carlow's job to look after a few cygnets? Don't they have Parents?

Totally agree always the parents fault!!

SV

foggy_lad wrote: »

Are the people of carlow so ignorant and self absorbed they can't look after a few swans on this dirty awful eyesore of a river flowing through the centre of town?

Would you ever cop on to yourself.
if it's so important to you then go and do something about it instead of doing nothing but complain the whole time.

SpitfireIV

racso1975 wrote: »

Totally agree always the parents fault!!

I seen the parents falling out of Scraggs the other day at 5pm, disgraceful! But sure dont you know they'll be on Jeremy Kyle someday anyway with the headlines 'You've been seen with other swans - are those cygnets really mine?!'

Sorry


As far as I'm away there hasnt been that many issues with the swans this summer, so far anyway. With all the work going on on the Barrow track I'd presume a lot of them have been disturbed as they'd often go up on the grass bank along there and tend to themselves. Cant say about the cygnets, would people eat them? :eek: (bloody foreigners, coming over here and eating all our cygnets! ), perhaps nature took its course, survival of the fitest and all that.

slimjimmc

Burp!
Oops, sorry.


It could be natural predation, but more likely it's any number of completely harmless things... the others could have been out of sight further along the river, or they may have been from different families and simply returned to their parents, or they might not even be the same ones you saw earlier. And as already said, many swans congregate on the Barrow so they may have paddled on to there.

I wouldn't worry about seeing 5 cygnets one day then only 2 a few days later, swans are very protective of their offspring so there's a good chance they're ok.

Bob_Harris

Must be those damned Poles again.

SIX PACK

Bob_Harris wrote: »

Must be those damned Poles again.

their was no need for the Racist comment

Bob_Harris

SIX PACK wrote: »

their was no need for the Racist comment

:rolleyes:

SpitfireIV

Bob_Harris wrote: »

Must be those damned Poles again.

SIX PACK wrote: »

their was no need for the Racist comment

I think he could be onto something!! I seen a pole in the Burrin the other day, I was going into the carpark and there on the right hand side was a big pole! Must have been about 10ft, bloody big one.

Dont know where it came from or what it was, but someone obviously nicked it from somewhere and fecked it in the water!

ShayK1

SIX PACK wrote: »

their was no need for the Racist comment

I'm pretty sure that was sarcasm and not racism

David09

foggy_lad wrote: »

Are the people of carlow so ignorant and self absorbed.....

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