A happy ending for this lonely cygnet?
Staff at a WWT centre in Dumfries are hopeful of a happy ending for a lonely young swan separated from its family
The young whooper swan arrived in Caerlaverock from Iceland with its family last year but was unable to return this spring after damaging its feathers.
As a result, the sad little cygnet has spent a summer on the Solway all alone.
The lonely swan will soon be reunited with its feathered friends.
Experts at the centre are preparing for the return of the swans this autumn and can't wait for the bored bird to be reunited with its buddies.
Faith Hillier, Engagement officer at WWT Caerlaverock
"The poor swan has been on the Whooper Pond at Caerlaverock all by itself over the summer but in early October all the whooper swans will return to join it.
Thankfully, the swan has started re-growing its flight feathers so we are hoping that it should be able to migrate back to Iceland next spring."
The lonesome swan can still be found on Whooper Pond at WWT Caerlaverock.
Staff at Caerlaverock work hard to prepare for the arrival of up to 300 whooper swans at the beginning of October, cleaning and maintaining multiple ponds and fields across the reserve so that their winter stay is a comfortable one.
The swans, which migrate from Iceland in family groups with their cygnets, are fed twice a day until they depart around the end of March.
In 2015, WWT Caerlaverock was home to Autumnwatch and Michaela introduced us to these impressive swans.
