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Managed to SAVE A SWAN Wednesday night. Don't know if I am in the wrong place or the right place at the wrong time !!! ?@?$ Visiting a care home, parked up near Southwark Park. Swan trapped in builders exclusion railings with no run for a take off. Had to lift locked railings on concrete blocks to free swan. Some locals said it had been there an hour, and they had tried to the RSPCA but they were engaged. (This is a lie, as they are NEVER engaged, you get a list of options to choose before getting an operator). Freed swan was now on a small estate with building work and no way into the park. It decided it liked following me, or somehow knew I was helping, so I tried to walk it back to the park several hundred metres. It was getting dark. Had to try and avoid dogs some on leads, some not!, buses, cars, and keeping close to the park. The swan kept trying to get through railings it could not fit through, getting itself stuck. I released the swan from the railings a few times. A helpful lady came out with some bread for the swan and offered me some tea. The swan followed the bread and me, but it got a bit scary by the busy road. I couldn't cope alone, SO I PHONED THE RSPCA AGAIN, and headed back into the estate back onto some grass where the park railings are. Swans don't walk well, it was falling up and down the kerbs. The swan kept trying to get through the railings back to the pond. By now, I had been with the swan over an hour, some foxes were lurking the other side of the railings waiting for it to stick its big neck through. I threw some sticks and made hissy noises to scare them away. The swan kept very close to me. It also hissed at the foxes!! I was a bit scared of it, it was very big. I kept close enough to protect it and far enough not to scare it. After an hour the RSPCA lady came she picked up the swan. She carried it around the estate looking for a quicker way into the park, but we couldn't find one. We went back out to the road and walked to the park gates. The swan was very heavy, the lady had to rest a couple of times, and let the swans neck rest. We walked a way into the park. She stood on a bench and dropped it over the railings.

On the soft grass and open space the swan took a big run and flew off back to the pond. HOOORAAAY! Another late supper for me but no swan supper for the foxes - this time!!


I don't think I was interfering in nature, as builders exclusion railings weren't there before and not natural!

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Good job string vest. You actually seem to be in the right place at the right time, a lot of people would not have helped or not known how to help. Well done. I think things seem to happen around you, maybe because you care! Who knows, but very good news and a happy swan.

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