{"id":473,"date":"2015-02-05T17:05:47","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T17:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swanrescue.org.uk\/?p=473"},"modified":"2015-02-05T17:05:47","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T17:05:47","slug":"distressed-swan-at-wilcrick-monmouthshire-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swanrescue.org.uk\/?p=473","title":{"rendered":"Distressed swan at Wilcrick, Monmouthshire."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swanrescue.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_4146.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-471\" style=\"width: 440px\" alt=\"IMG_4146\" src=\"http:\/\/swanrescue.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_4146.jpg\" width=\"3264\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a>Call yesterday from Christine who lives in Llanmartin; she walks the Wilcrick area fairly regularly. She was concerned about a lone adult swan in a reen in a very remote area of the levels. I promised I would visit today, and as things have turned out, just as well I did.<\/p>\n<p>Three things to cause concern:<\/p>\n<p>1. His location is immediately across the road from a shoot&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>2. He is somewhat scruffy having very obviously had fairly recent contact with some form of oil; one can only imagine\/guess where that might have come from&#8230;!<\/p>\n<p>3. But most seriously of all, and enough on its own to justify taking him into care is the fact he has quite a prominent swelling on the right hand side of his face (actually within the mask area &#8211; it is just about visible in the photograph). This suggests an infection affecting the sinus region. This definitely calls for specialist veterinary intervention.<\/p>\n<p>National Swan Sanctuary; here we come. Watch this space!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call yesterday from Christine who lives in Llanmartin; she walks the Wilcrick area fairly regularly. She was concerned about a lone adult swan in a reen in a very remote area of the levels. I promised I would visit today, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/swanrescue.org.uk\/?p=473\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanrescue.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanrescue.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanrescue.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanrescue.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanrescue.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swanrescue.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":474,"href":"https:\/\/swanrescue.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions\/474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanrescue.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanrescue.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanrescue.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}