Haitians?
We know what probably happened to the bird. I hope they get life of hard time.
Seriously we here in Idaho are up to our azz in swans all winter. Nothing eats them unless they are desperate. Magpies screw with my cats and the cats prey on songbirds not magpies, if I don’t interrupt them on the hunt. The reason some birds don’t get preyed upon, my guess, is they taste like shit. Get serious boys and girls, some things aren’t good to eat. Sand Hill Cranes aren’t rib eye in the sky. Elk, deer, buffalo, trout, crappie, catfish, perch are a few of the stuff to eat. If they get the swan back, let it go if it’s alive. If it’s not make the assholes eat it. Then deport them or shoot them. IMO.
Let’s just deport them then.
-PJ
In Imitation of Chaucer
Women ben full of Ragerie,
Yet swinken not sans secresie.
Thilke Moral shall ye understond,
From Schoole—boy’s Tale of fayre Irelond:
Which to the Fennes hath him betake,
To filch the gray Ducke fro the Lake.
Right then, there passen by the Way
His Aunt, and eke her Daughters tway.
Ducke in his Trowses hath he hent,
Not to be spied of Ladies gent.
‘But ho! our Nephew,’ (crieth one)
‘Ho!’ quoth another, ‘Cozen John;’
And stoppen, and lough, and callen out, —
This sely Clerk full low doth lout:
They asken that, and talken this,
‘Lo here is Coz, and here is Miss.’
But, as he glozeth with Speeches soote,
The Ducke sore tickleth his Erse—roote:
Fore—piece and buttons all—to—brest,
Forth thrust a white neck, and red crest.
‘Te—he,’ cry’d Ladies; Clerke nought spake:
Miss star’d; and gray Ducke crieth Quake.
‘O Moder, Moder,’ (quoth the daughter)
‘Be thilke same thing Maids longer a’ter?
‘Bette is to pyne on coals and chalke,
’Then trust on Mon, whose yerde can talke.’
EAT THE CAT (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO) [Starring President Trump] You WILL Laugh Out Loud!
There eating the cats. There eating the dogs.😄
Olim Lacus Colueram (from Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana)
Once I lived on lakes,
once I looked beautiful
when I was a swan.
(Male chorus)
Misery me!
Now black
and roasting fiercely!
(Tenor)
The servant is turning me on the spit;
I am burning fiercely on the pyre:
the steward now serves me up.
(Male Chorus)
Misery me!
Now black
and roasting fiercely!
(Tenor)
Now I lie on a plate,
and cannot fly anymore,
I see bared teeth:
(Male Chorus)
Misery me!
Now black
and roasting fiercely!
Update. Now they’re eating the swans...
Note the bit about lunch plates.
When swan have been on good feed, like the grain and corn they eat at Mattamuskeet, they are the best eating of all waterfowl - like a dark rich roast beef. If they are feeding from greens in the western U.S.’s alkali flats, that is a different story altogether.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCPjQOBr7aI
Yes, usual suspects:
“Less than 24 hours after the video was posted, NYC Parks worker Frank Kelly spotted the suspects about two miles away at Forest Park.
Three of four suspects were apprehended as a result of neighbors banding together to protect wildlife.”
Unfortunately:
“The whereabouts of the missing waterfowl are still unknown.”
Mute Swans are not protected by Federal Law.
They are protected by NYS law regarding removal of wildlife.