Town councillors are considering a campaign to urge dog owners to keep pets on leads around Nantwich Lake and the Riverside.
It comes amid a number of recent incidents involving dogs attacking or chasing wildfowl.
By Jonathan White
Members of Wistaston Swans WI have hand-painted 350 pebbles to commemorate Poppy Day.
The pebbles are now on display on the low black ledge at the front and both sides of Wistaston Memorial Hall on Church Lane.
They have brought joy to many of us in Nantwich over the years.
But the latest Swan family to reside on the River Weaver has been even more of a welcome relief during the current pandemic lockdown.
Nantwich residents have voiced fears over poisonous food being left out for birds along River Weaver, prompting a warning from the RSPCA.
It comes after one reader spotted pieces of mouldy bread which had been scattered along the path by the river bank off Davenport Avenue and Manor Road.
These gorgeous pictures show Nantwich’s latest swan family are settling in nicely.
The family, nesting near the River Weaver, have been drawing plenty of attention after the three cygnets hatched in the last few days.
Hardy members of a new conservation group gathered for a Nantwich Lake big clean-up.
People leading the new Nantwich Lake Wildlife Conservation Group braved the wind and rain to carry out their first big initiative.
Four of the six new cygnets that arrived on the banks of River Weaver in Nantwich, are feared dead.
The baby swans had delighted wildlife lovers and walkers along the Weaver and Nantwich Lake, where the adult swans have been nesting.
Wildlife lovers in Nantwich are to launch a new conservation group to protect animals living at Nantwich Lake.
Caron Hull, who helped set up the Queens Park Wildlife Conservation Group last year, is spearheading the idea.
RSPCA officers are investigating claims dog owners are encouraging animals to attack swans and cygnets at Nantwich Lake.
And they say they are “sickened” after receiving reports from a number of witnesses who have seen the attacks.
A pair of swans nesting at a marina near Nantwich have caught the eye – after gaining an extra cygnet! Mating swans at Aqueduct Marina, Church Minshull, hatched six cygnets at the end of May.
Nantwich’s favourite feathered family is flourishing on the banks of the Weaver, as these pictures show! Two cygnets and their mum and dad were seen near Waterlode this weekend by walkers out and about.
There are fears that half of a group of new-born cygnets on Nantwich’s Mill Island have been killed. Hundreds of passersby have marvelled at the cygnets born to Nantwich’s popular swan family on the River Weaver last week.
Nantwich’s favourite family has just expanded – after these beautiful cygnets arrived overnight! The mating swans on the River Weaver have been a popular attraction in the town over recent months.
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