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Re: Mute Swan



Dear SC Listers,

What is the status of Mute Swan per the SC Records Committee?

Conservatively yours,
Steve Compton
Summerville,SC
mailto:scompton@sc.rr.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Phillips" <walela@sccoast.net>
To: "John Peachey" <ppaw@sccoast.net>
Cc: "carolinabirds" <carolinabirds@duke.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 8:41 PM
Subject: Re: Mute Swan


> Hey Jack,
>     For the record, those birds were originally introduced at one of the
> campgrounds at Surfside Beach (Ocean Lakes or Lakewood,) not Murrells
Inlet.
> No one I've talked to so far seems to recall the exact year, but think it
> was in the mid-80's. As I understand it, the first group were killed,
> probably by some of those nice little kids from the south strand area.
> Another 2 or 3 pairs were brought in, and they took hold. They spread from
> Surfside to Garden City, then to Murrells Inlet.
>     We found them with young on our golf course breeding bird survey at
Deer
> Track and Indigo Creek. They're also breeding in The Lakes subdivision and
> at Indian Wells GC.
>     I know the Mute Swans are a pain in the butt, but they are right
pretty
> swimming around on the ponds down that way. No need to worry about them
> displacing native species. The rampant development in that area will have
> taken care of most of the native species within the next ten years. Just
> hide and watch. Almost everything east of the Intracoastal is history,
> courtesy of Burroughs and Chapin Corp., their allies in the real estate
> community, and our friendly SC Dept. of Transportation. But remember,
> they're all working to make this a better place for us.
>     Bitter? Cynical? Sarcastic? Who, me? I've looked at too many area tax
> maps and researched too many property owners in the past year, y'all. Golf
> courses, cookie-cutter sub-divisions, apartment complexes are already laid
> out on a number of the maps. And the damned parkway and its embryonic
> hell-spawn aren't even near being finished yet. "They" want to rape the
area
> paralleling the Little Pee Dee River next.
>     On the plus side, more places for people to hang up a hummingbird
> feeder....
>     Progress...yeah, right.
>
> Cheers,
>
> gary
>
> Gary Phillips
> Conway, SC
>  Zone 8
> walela@sccoast.net
> "Never has the earth been so lovely nor the sun so bright, as today..."
> (Nikinapi)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Peachey <ppaw@sccoast.net>
> To: carolinabirds@duke.edu <carolinabirds@duke.edu>
> Date: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 7:49 PM
> Subject: Mute Swan
>
>
> >
> >Hi Carolinabirders,
> > I am now counting on my year lists and HBSP list Mute Swan as the birds
> >are wandering about from a feral population started at a community in
> >Murrells Inlet about 10 years ago.
> >
> >Jack
> >Jack Peachey
> >Conway, SC
> >
>