WalesOnline has seen images too graphic to share of a swan which seems to have received a fatal wound to the head. It comes as the RSPCA issues an appeal for information after a female swan was reportedly "shot in the head" whilst nesting her eggs on Neath canal last week.
The cruel attack, understood to have taken place overnight on Friday, May 12, is thought to be the third swan death in this section of the canal in the last 18 months, coming after a cygnet had a "brick dropped on it" a year and a half ago and after a female swan with eight cygnets became seriously injured, and later put to sleep, after having a stone thrown at her, a local resident said.
WalesOnline was contacted by the concerned local after she and others laid the swan to rest near the site it was shot, near George's Row in Briton Ferry. The resident says a male swan was also injured in the incident, and the female's seven eggs were taken. Want the latest Neath Port Talbot news straight to your inbox? We send our email subscribers a newsletter twice per week with the latest news from the region. Sign up here
