It was a while ago, but it keeps coming back to me.

I live near the reservoir in Bremgarten AG. At the end of July/beginning of August I was on holiday for two weeks. When I got home I immediately noticed that the swan family was no longer complete: of two adult swans and two young ones (they were already bigger than ducks), only one adult swan is left. I also noticed that the seagulls have completely disappeared.

I go for a lot of walks along the Reuss, or rather, along the reservoir. On my first walk after the holidays I found the photographed note.

Do you think it was a person who made the birds disappear? Why?
Could it be just nature by itself?
Could it be related to the dam (this is about 300m further down)?
What do you think? Is there an expert with an explanation here by any chance?

by Narrow-Outside179

9 comments

  1. I don’t know the area. But uncontrolled dogs that disturb breeding birds can definitely drive them away for good (or kill them). And I see too many people who let their dogs run free and have no idea that they are hunting…

  2. Seems plausible, not the stealing part, but the humans disturbing the nature reserve part, via dogs, moving things, leaving thrash, fires, noise, etc.

  3. In some cultures, birds are a delicacy. There has been such development in the United Kingdom and Canada. 

    https://youtu.be/JPzs_OBHd6g

    Could be something else entirely but birds like this don’t just vanish. And we shouldn’t ignore possible explanations just because they are inconvenient. Different people = different outcomes.

  5. August 1 fireworks perhaps – they killed an entire group of Swans on the Rhine in Basel a few years ago

  7. I thought you were asking if a human wrote the text because how of unhinged ai generated it reads 😅

  8. I dont know the area. But in Lausanne, it is forbidden to have uncontrolled dogs by the lake during breeding season. For a good reason. I’m not saying it was dogs, bit these rules can help.

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