A dead swan has been spotted on the banks of the Forth at Cornton amid a bird flu outbreak.
A reader contacted the Observer about the carcass after seeing it lying by the banks of the river last Tuesday, February 14, the day before a case of the highly contagious H5N1 bird flu strain was confirmed at a Stirling farm a few miles away.
Following the Stirling case – at Murdiston Cottage, Chalmerston Road - a three kilometre ‘protection zone’ and a ten kilometre ‘surveillance zone’ was placed around the site. It follows a case in Mayfield Crescent, Clackmannan, on January 24.
