\nBBC News,\u00a0UK\u00a0– Jan 31, 2014
\nA worker drowned two swallow chicks at a building site at Gleneagles Hotel, Perth Sheriff Court has heard.
\nThe birds, which were about one-week-old, were deliberately thrown into a puddle and killed by Polish labourer Zbigniew Dyrda.
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\nDyrda, 28, from Glenrothes, admitted carrying out the offence on 19 July last year and was fined \u00a3110.<\/p>\n
The Crown accepted his not guilty plea to a second charge of deliberately knocking the birds’ nest to the ground.<\/p>\n
The court head how the chicks fell to the ground after the nest at the timeshare development was disturbed.<\/p>\n
‘Totally unaware’<\/p>\n
Fiscal depute Stuart Richardson said: “Attracting some interest among those employed there was a swallow’s nest which had been built.<\/p>\n
“It was noticed there were young swallows in the nest. It would appear two of the chicks fell to the ground from the nest.<\/p>\n
“The accused then picked them up and threw them into a large puddle of water, obviously killing them. Other workers noticed this and called the police.”<\/p>\n
Solicitor Billy Somerville, defending, said: “He was working as a labourer with a company in the area. It appears the nest was accidentally dislodged.<\/p>\n
“The two birds had fallen out of it and he didn’t know what to do. They were possibly only one-week old.<\/p>\n
“I don’t think they would have survived falling out of the nest in any case, but he does accept disposing of them in the manner described.<\/p>\n
“He was totally unaware he had committed an offence. He is currently unemployed having recently returned here from Poland.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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