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We were s-wondering what happened to them!

10:10am Sunday 21st March 2010 in


FURTHER evidence has emerged this week that a family of swans feared to have been 'bird-napped' from Bridgwater's docklands are actually safe and well.

After we reported on the birds' mysterious disappearance, readers told the Mercury swans had been seen landing on the field opposite Dunball Wharf.

And this week, reader Peter Coleman wondered whether the birds in his picture were the docklands swans. He said: “I watched them for more than a week gathering daily near the south side of Bridgwater.”

Comments(6)

GGGG says...
3:37pm Sun 21 Mar 10

Not much of a mystery really. Poor poor journalism. Might as well be reading the Daily Mail website. David Hemming, give the readers of Bridgwater some credit. Swans have wings... they fly.

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s.m says...
10:30pm Sun 21 Mar 10

well well well you will never guess what my family saw down the canal on friday afternoon........... a swan.

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townrunbyclowns says...
1:04am Mon 22 Mar 10

just shows how boring bridgwater is!!!...i saw a cat the other day it had a tail..and a rabbit with big ears!! wake up mercury and let real people tell you about this dump of a town is like instead of reporting on swans!!!

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twinkles says...
3:33pm Mon 22 Mar 10

Or on the other hand, you could be thankful that our local paper isn't full of murder, rape, and other massively serious crime?

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tf1123 says...
5:09pm Tue 23 Mar 10

Are you sure that the ''Rabbit'' with big ears, Wasnt a hare?
I'm hoping that little question is a bit of light entertainment for you all :)

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somertel says...
1:00pm Thu 25 Mar 10

I saw these swans when I was walking round the river bank opposite Dunball on Sunday. Some blokes who had driven there in a 4x4 (presumably the farmer or farm workers) were trying to scare them off the field by taking shots at them with a rifle. Thankfully they stopped shooting when they saw me walking along the bank. The swans appeared completely oblivious to the shots.

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