Beach horror scene as birds spotted 'gasping for air' with 62 discovered dead amid avian flu crisis
dailyrecord.co.ukA dog walker says she spotted 62 dead birds with dozens of sick birds ‘gasping for breath’ amidst a horror scene on an Ayrshire beach.
Sandra McDerment was visiting Maidens beach with her husband Jim and two cocker spaniels when she came across the grim discovery of stricken birds on Thursday.
It comes as a bird flu warning was issued by two councils who were working to clean up beaches of infected animals. The pair were walking along to Culzean beach when they were stunned to find tens of deceased birds dotted across the shore.Sandra has told how they began counting after their dogs sniffed out one or two and were stunned to see so many.Sandra told Ayrshire Live: “It was horrible when we go out a walk with the dogs we sometimes spot one or two dead sea gulls.“But this was just bird, after bird, after bird.
To have so many dead birds en masse like that was awful to see.“In half a mile we counted 62 we only walked along the beach we could see there was more on the other side when we got to the entrance at Culzean.
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