I'D LIKE to share with you an incident which my children and I witnessed at Cannop Ponds last Sunday.
As we were sitting on one side of the lake we could see a fisherman on the other side, getting annoyed and clapping his hands at a pair of swans and three signets which were on the water, but in his way.
After that failed to dislodge them, he began to repeatedly throw a large red float on a line (presumably hookless) at them, and when that failed too, he resorted to throwing handfuls of gravel up in the air, so that it rained down on them. They eventually moved.
Swans, and other wildlife, have every right to be on that lake and this sort of behaviour is completely unacceptable. I recall an article in the Review, back in the spring, which reported that someone was suspected of removing eggs from these swans' nest; if that was the case, then surely we only have to ask who would have most to benefit from their disappearance. – Concerned, Parkend.