otters or not(ters)?????????

[SEAN3513 7]

hello all, just been speaking to a mate, who, had a coarse and trout fishery, which he no longer runs, so he has let the land and ponds to a bloke who is setting up a wildlife oasis!!

 

he spent in the region of £2500 buying some swans and other water fowl.

 

when checking them one morning he found some of them dead.....with broken necks???? but other than that unharmed.

 

the trout pond was emptied but the coarse pond had some fish, including some quite big carp, left in.

 

and some of these have disapeared????

 

first thoughts where poachers !! but the land is heavily protected around its perimiter by various means, plus the remaining birds a terrified to go back on the water??

 

he has made a few phone calls to well informed people and it all seems to point towards otters?????????

 

wondered if any one else has heard of this or similar?????

 

thanks

 

sean