⚠️ CAUTION! Video does not make for nice viewing. Sadly, it was not the only Whooper Swan under this stretch of wires. It was one of 18 dead! Powerlines, in certain areas, still pose deadly risks to our waterbirds. 2/3

6 months ago, it was just an egg in a nest on a lakeside in Iceland. At 3 months, its parents navigated it over the ice cap & straight out to sea where it completed the 1000-mile migration. Sadly, it won't be doing the return. It's met its end by colliding with a UK powerline 1/3

⬆️ @UKPowerNetworks, please can we have installed some flight deflectors on the stretch of line at TL3818180148 in Cambridgeshire to try and prevent further deaths ⬇️ 3/3

@NorfolkBea All it needs is the round discs at intervals to stop then hitting the wires. Got the electricity company locally to do that across a farm area geese and swans used to fly over that was c30 years ago

Where is this? In the Fens? I’m appalled but sadly not surprised that there are still lines untagged in this area 😡

This is really sad......can we hang flags on the power lines? Which company is this? Or is it just something there is no hope of fixing.. poor swans. Birds amaze me as one of the few creatures that still manage to live a truly wild existence

That’s so sad. What a waste of life 😞

Such tragic news Kane.

This could be solved by using particolored cables or hanging tags. The birds simply don't see them. Culpable negligence by the electricity supplier and the landowners, who should be prosecuted for killing protected species

Ed Milliband wants to put up more power lines, more bird mincing windmills. He will wipe out all of them the way he is going.

So terribly sad. Awful. Thank you for sharing the horrible information. Electricity - even if created by renewables - still is able to devastate nature, in some ways. What a dreadful thing.

Surely this is more than sufficient reason to underground this section?