00:10we're here swan up in today but swan up in years and years ago right back to the 12th century
00:17it
00:18was a very important food served up at banquets and feasts and you know people used to be very
00:26very proud of keeping swans of course today swan up in is nothing to do with eating swans it's all
00:34about education and conservation last year we had a hundred and fifteen young cygnets but that was
00:52quite low compared with sort of three or four years ago when we were up to about 140 150 but
01:01we've had
01:01the problem of bird flu in the winter months which has taken a lot of breeding pairs have died through
01:08that we also have a lot of shootings with catapults youngsters with catapults air rifles and so that
01:17causes another serious problem for us
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