Cygnet Poorly

Daily feeding and monitoring of our River birds gives a valuable insight into their health and condition.

 The sleepy cygnet in the previous posting turned out to be a little more than sleepy head. This cygnet went off it's food for several days to the point where I was ready to get it to a Vet for a check up. 

Thankfully today it has picked up and started to eat once more, albeit tentatively. A couple of days ago, Slim , Sue and the other cygnet were all flying without the sick one, this proved it was too sick and weak to fly.

Slim and Sue knew something was wrong but unable to help, so kept it at arms length, just in case !

I was on the verge of grabbing it yesterday when it mouthed some feed and started to show an interest in eating again, so I held back and gave it another day to see if it improved, so far so good ! It may have eaten some Ivy that had washed down in a previous spate. 

Sadly the pigeon in the previous post died peacefully 5 days after I took it in for treatment.