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Wednesday 7th. March. At the third attempt, (following two postponements) had lunch with  ‘aaa’ at Swindon and returned via Eastville Park in Bristol to respond to three calls received in quick succession concerning a ‘tackled’ juvenile swan. On arrival, discovered … Continue reading →

6th February; Huntington Court, Hereford; full scale territorial dispute going on as a result of arrival of another adult pair – these taken into care for re-homing. 12th February; report of exhausted swan near Saracen’s Head pub at Symonds Yat … Continue reading →

19th January; report of juvenile trapped in sluice at Hendre Park Lake; attended, but no problem found. 20th January; territorial dispute at Flaxley, Gloucs. Pair driven from their home of many years; female died as a result of flying into … Continue reading →

Date: 17th January, 2012.  Location: Monnow Bridge, Monmouth. Received two calls Tuesday afternoon about this 11.8 kg cob which was in very serious difficulty. He had been rescued from the river and taken to Monnow Bridge Veterinary Practice, where, quite … Continue reading →

John registers concern about the adult female; she spends a lot of time out of the water and away from the rest of the family. Yesterday, Edwin saw her fall over a couple of times, and there’s a feeling her … Continue reading →

If you can pick the bones of that, you’re a better … than I am G… D…!! Amazingly, we’re almost back at Sevenoaks Fishery – almost an adjacent property, but this time it is a serious ‘territorial’ dispute. It’s that … Continue reading →

Once again, thank you to Steve for helping us out as it was getting dark (9/1) by going to Sevenoaks fishery to collect this young swan which was trailing a length of tangled line with a hook at the end … Continue reading →

We really didn’t expect today’s (5th January) rescue to be quite so difficult. The call came in late afternoon the day before, and related to two still very brown cygnets in a reene (spelling as per Avon and Somerset!), which … Continue reading →

If you have rescued swans for any length of time, quite quickly you accumulate a list comprising a number of places you have to visit more frequently than others; we tend to call them ‘black spots’. One such place is … Continue reading →

Calls to Bute East Dock (Atlantic Wharf) in Cardiff have not been uncommon over the years, but usually they come from either Amanda or Yvonne whom we can describe as our ‘eyes’ in the area, and they miss nothing which … Continue reading →