02/06/2025 14:15 Swan Nesting Census 2025
The Swan nesting census is nearly finished for 2025. My boundaries are the greater Dublin area which includes East Kildare and North Wicklow. 2024 was very poor and below what is needed to maintain the population. We only had 116 cygnets hatch and many of them did not survive the first 12 weeks.
The following is the outstanding nests / data .
Baldoyle Estuary. New nest site. Still nesting. Neither Swan identified.
Ballymount Park. Still nesting.
Blessington Street Basin. Neither adult identified yet.
Castletown House. I have not visited this lake to see results of nesting.
Corkagh Park, Wildfowl Lake. Still nesting.
Hatchings listed alphabetically below, the current situation is as of 01/06/2025 20:10 is 119 cygnets hatched.
Adamstown, 12th Lock on Grand Canal.
01/06/2025, 4 Cygnets. Make CDNN & Female CDJC
Ballycragh, Firhouse, Dublin 24
17/05/2025. 5 Cygnets
08/09/2025 Still 5 cygnets
Blessington Street Basin, Dublin7
12/05/2025. 6 Cygnets. Both parents - rings not yet read.
Bray, River Dargle
New nest site. 22/05/2025 3 Cygnets. Female un-ringed!
29/05/2025. 4 Cygnets hatched
11/05/2025 5 cygnets. Female un-ringed.
10/09/2025 3 Cygnets
Caves Marsh, Malahide Yacht Club.
01/06/2025 hatched 4
Chapelizod, Liffey
18/05/2025 Hatched 6.
06/07/2025 Island Bridge CCZZ (M) unringed F & 4 Cygnets
Corkagh Park, Fishing Lakes
20/05/2025 hatched 6.
30/08/2025 - Female taken into care by Kildare Wildlife. Lethargic. Put on drip. No update.
03/09/2025 - Female returned to Corkagh Park
06/09/2025 - CCDD M & CDJV + 5 cygnets
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| Corkagh Fishing Lakes 02/02/2025 13 days old. |
Fairview Park, Tolka River
31/05/2025. 8 Cygnets and both swans un-ringed.
23/08/2025 Still 6 Cygnets.
Fr Collins Park,
11/05/2025 hatched 6 Cygnets
Gollierstown Bridge, Adamstown
24/05/2025 Hatched 4 Cygnets
Grangecastle Business Park
10/05/2025. Hatched 4. However it soon reduced to 3.
02/09/2025 Still 3 Cygnets at Grangecastle.
Lucan Weir
30/05/2025. Hatched. Just 1 Cygnet. Spot the cygnet? The cygnet is now called Spot.
14/09/2025. Spot has survived. 1 Cygnet
Naas Harbour, Co Kildare
24/05/2025 Hatched 3 cygnets
Newbridge, Lakeside
17/05/2025 Hatched 9 cygnets
23/07/2025 Still 8 Cygnets
04/08/2025 7 Cygnets remain.
Parkwest Guinness Filters, Clondalkin
10/05/2025 Hatched 3 Cygnets
06/09/2025. No surviving Cygnets
Poppintree Park, Ballymun
25/05/2025 Hatched 8 Cygnets
Ryewater Aquaduct / Confey. Leixlip, Co Kildare
17/05/2025 Hatched 3 cygnets
Tolka Valley Park, Finglas
24/05/2025 Spotted with 4. These always leave the Park when hatched and travel down the Tolka to Griffith Park. They arrived with 4. No way of knowing how many hatched.
Tymon Park, Limekiln Lake, Tallaght, Dublin 24
21/05/2025 Hatched 8 Cygnets
06/09/2025 4 Cygnets remain. :)
14/09/2025 managed to confirm the metal. CABF - Colour missing - Metal read.
Tymon North, Tymon Park, Tallaght, Dublin 24
15/05/2025. Hatched 7 Cygnets
19/07/2025 Still with 5 Cygnets
09/09/2025 Still with 5 Cygnets
Tymon Park, Spawell end. (Also called Wellington Road Lake).
10/05/2025 hatched 5
University College Dublin, Belfield
19/05/2025. New Pair, un-ringed. Hatched 2 Cygnets
14/07/2025 - Still 2 Cygnets - Nessa Childers.
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