weasle 1,119 Posted June 10, 2013 Report Share Posted June 10, 2013 Bustard is the heaviest flying bird. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
neil cooney 10,416 Posted June 10, 2013 Report Share Posted June 10, 2013 They'd still have been bigger than chickens. Once waterfowl have left the nest predators normally only take one at a time. But in the case of swans the parents can protect their clutch from nearly all predators except the pike and he wouldn't take the whole clutch in a short space of time. I seen a pike go for a swan once but as he neared the swan he had second thoughts, the swan reared up, hissed at the pike and the pike backed off. I'd say the "predator" that took your cygnates used a bit of bait to lure them within reach. Any other predators and you'd have seen feathers along the bank or a body floating in the water. Am I right in saying that in Britain swans are the property of the Queen ?? So to steal a swan you've stolen from her majesty. Maybe that's some form of treason ??? LOL. Someone should inform her. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
paulus 26 Posted June 10, 2013 Report Share Posted June 10, 2013 They'd still have been bigger than chickens. Once waterfowl have left the nest predators normally only take one at a time. But in the case of swans the parents can protect their clutch from nearly all predators except the pike and he wouldn't take the whole clutch in a short space of time. I seen a pike go for a swan once but as he neared the swan he had second thoughts, the swan reared up, hissed at the pike and the pike backed off. I'd say the "predator" that took your cygnates used a bit of bait to lure them within reach. Any other predators and you'd have seen feathers along the bank or a body floating in the water. Am I right in saying that in Britain swans are the property of the Queen ?? So to steal a swan you've stolen from her majesty. Maybe that's some form of treason ??? LOL. Someone should inform her. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1261044/Slaughter-swans-As-carcasses-pile-crude-camps-built-river-banks-residents-frightened-visit-park-Peterborough.html Muslim http://www.weirdisland.co.uk/behaviour/superstitions/are-immigrants-eating-ourswans-.html Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sussex 5,777 Posted June 10, 2013 Report Share Posted June 10, 2013 +2 for the eastern Europeans(my mate recons its them as well)..We were fishing the Ebro in spain they killed every fish they caught, carp to 40lb ,big cats 100+ lb. no matter what size they all got the same treatment put on a stringer and kept till the fridge van came , killed , gone .When we asked the guide about it he said its legal , nothing you can do .He couldn't see a problem......... we could .!!. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Malt 379 Posted June 10, 2013 Report Share Posted June 10, 2013 Bustard is the heaviest flying bird.looked it up last night after I posted, there's only a kilo or so in it and the heaviest of either on record is a polish mute swan cob! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
forest of dean redneck 11,722 Posted June 10, 2013 Report Share Posted June 10, 2013 Bustard is the heaviest flying bird.looked it up last night after I posted, there's only a kilo or so in it and the heaviest of either on record is a polish mute swan cob!It was only heaviest because it was full of Paxo! When I first put chickens on my allotment I used to go up morning and night time, Well one evening as I went up to it ,there was a car on side of road,and a man stood looking down into the riverside field,now I can't remember if it was a pair of swans,or Canada geese that was on it. 15 mins laterI went back through car gone and only one bird in the field,looking kind of perplexed, What do you reckon? Different month and field other side of the river,2 people with a running dog,and one was holding the dog,pointing at a swan in middle of the field. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kay 3,709 Posted June 10, 2013 Report Share Posted June 10, 2013 Like Mal I have also seen swans move the whole brood on foot to another pond , quite a sight as I sat under a tree minding my own busines in the woods a couple of yrs ago & along comes a swan family Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WILF 47,624 Posted June 10, 2013 Report Share Posted June 10, 2013 I wonder if anyone on here could help with this mystery which happened last month. A pair of swans in the local park had seven cygnets which all seemed healthy but a few days later they had all vanished without trace and no one has a clue what happened to them. This pair have been having young for years with no problems and if the odd one had been taken by a predator it would make sense but not all seven and six ducklings also have gone missing. A splinter cell of hardcore Tudor reenactment enthusiasts ??? 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The one 8,511 Posted June 10, 2013 Report Share Posted June 10, 2013 Theres a pair in the loch at work they raise 6/7 cygnets each year then a foreign student ran one over another flew into a lamp post a duck and got put down and a fox got another one , But they never all vanish over night Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hopeb88 0 Posted June 10, 2013 Author Report Share Posted June 10, 2013 A few days before I saw the cygnets I saw two pike and one was really big but would it have taken seven cygnets with the parents close bye. I once read about a jack russell type dog being attacked by a pike but that must have been a very big one. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Nik_B 3,790 Posted June 10, 2013 Report Share Posted June 10, 2013 Tie a dead swan round the neck of each one of them 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
killbilly 17 Posted June 10, 2013 Report Share Posted June 10, 2013 I know of 2 cases over here where East Europeans got done for killing swans. In one case a dead swan was found in this guys luggage at Dublin airport. A few years back a village pond a few miles from here got cleaned out overnight. Swans, geese and ducks....all gone Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mushroom 13,253 Posted June 10, 2013 Report Share Posted June 10, 2013 (edited) +2 for the eastern Europeans(my mate recons its them as well)..We were fishing the Ebro in spain they killed every fish they caught, carp to 40lb ,big cats 100+ lb. no matter what size they all got the same treatment put on a stringer and kept till the fridge van came , killed , gone .When we asked the guide about it he said its legal , nothing you can do .He couldn't see a problem......... we could .!!. :laugh: Does not surprise me, you can buy a spear fishing license here in Decathalon ffs Edited June 10, 2013 by mushroom Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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