Saturday, June 28, 2003

This Week in Review (June 22-28, 2003):

Current News Items: Additions this week: 3. Cumulative to date: 164. News about Mute Swans continues to be muted. Other Online Documents: Additions this week: 0. Cumulative to data: 47 items from 26 sources.

Wednesday, June 25, 2003

Current News Articles (2):

Sight of Swans Attract Crowds, Cause Problems (Bourne [Massachusetts] Upper Cape Codder - 06/25/03): People stopping along a busy thoroughfare in Sandwich, Massachusetts, to feed a brood of mute swans have caused traffic hazards.
http://www.townonline.com/bourne/news/local_regional/newucsswans06252003.htm

Corps Rangers Trying to Move Geese to More Remote Areas of Lake Shelbyville (Matoon [Illinois] Journal Gazette and Charleston [Illinois] Times-Courier - 06/25/03): Among the many techniques being considered by the Corps of Engineers to discourage growing numbers of Canada Geese from using a popular bathing beach at this Corps public facility near Shelbyville, Illinois, is the use of “decoys of swans, the natural enemy of geese.”
http://www.jg-tc.com/articles/2003/06/25/news/news04.txt

Sunday, June 22, 2003

Current News Articles (1):

If Croakers Are Here, Where Are the Trout? (Easton [Maryland] Star-Democrat - 06/22/03 [NOTE: Scroll to bottom of page for Mute Swan note]): In his Up the Creek column, Keith Walters conveys the news, as reported by Maryland DNR waterfowl biologist Larry Hindman, that 24 female Mute Swans on the Chesapeake Bay have now been fitted with radio transmitters, and that another 20 radio collars will be placed on birds prior to the annual summer molt.
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=8527745&BRD=2101&PAG=461&dept_id=392208&rfi=6