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It is home to a multitude of wings, an already common sight for locals, but a fascinating sight for visitors.
Swarms of nature lovers go to Liberiškis to watch the swans slowly disintegrate in the pond and dance the dance of love with their lips.
“In the spring, our Liberiškis is very popular,” laughs Aurelija Bankauskienė, the president of the rural community.
A paradise for fishermen and birds
Liberis prides itself on being a fisherman’s paradise for over four decades. When the Šuoja stream was dammed in 1975 and formed more than three kilometers long, the 70-hectare pond attracted fishing enthusiasts, but in the second spring the swans were also very fond of it.
“We used to see swans here, but certainly not as many as now. Last year we saw where many of them came from, this year this beauty again,” says A. Bankauskienė.
According to her, hundreds of swans that stayed in the pond last spring did not stay long; there were far fewer left for the summer. And in the winter, after the pond froze, some approached the people: to the Šuoja stream that ran through the village, others left Liberiškis in search of a more suitable place to spend the winter.
The community president laughs that Liberiškis is almost the horn of Ventė.
“The swans not only like our pond. In a shallow place, the winches also stand on one leg, and the geese live, and how many more ducks,” says A. Bankauskienė about a unique corner of nature in the Panevėžys district.
It is not only nature that attracts
The Liberian should be more proud. This is a town with more than one special accent. It is known not only to those interested in nature, but also to those interested in the country’s past: a park with fragments of the old manor house has survived on the right bank of the Šuoja. The history of the Liberiškis mansion, now largely abandoned, is noteworthy. It was first mentioned in historical sources as early as 1595, and in 1940, when the famous Carpanacion Tent was nationalized, several artistic treasures and a library of over a thousand volumes of books were found. By the way, it also contained the Statute of Lithuania with the 18th century. final leather upholstery. Some of these values went to the Šiauliai Aušra Museum. And in 1951, a treasure was found in Liberiškis – seventeenth-century silver coins from the Republic of the Two Nations, Denmark, Brandenburg and other countries.
A. Bankauskienė laughs that it is not surprising that Liberiškis, famous for its rich past and picturesque nature, attracts settlers.
“Empty farms don’t stay long in Liberiškis; if only someone announces that they are selling, they buy quickly. People want houses in such a place,” says A. Bankauskienė, who moved to the village in 1987.
There is a fine for feeding
According to the famous naturalist Selemonas Paltanavičius, such an abundance of swans congregate in Žuvinas, the Curonian lagoon and other large bodies of water. Hundreds or even thousands of them overwinter each year in the ice-free section of the Nemunas, near the hydroelectric power station.
S. Paltanavičius believes that the swans that fell into the Liberiškis pond will probably remain silent.
“Most likely, the immature birds will stay in the pond. The swans mature in 3-4 years of life, and the adult pairs are already separated in its waters,” said the naturalist.
According to him, it is difficult to say how long they will stay in Liberiškis. A large flock of birds need a lot of food, so they are likely to leave after mating.
Swans feed on herbaceous plants. S. Paltanavičius warns those who come to admire these royal birds not to feed in any way.
“Now there is a lot of food in nature, and the swan is part of it. It is forbidden to accommodate or feed them. People think they are doing a good job, but they are really doing a lot of damage and can be punished ”, emphasized the naturalist.
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