A family of swans spotted sitting in a town centre resident’s garden “as if they were waiting for their taxi” have been safely transported to a nearby lake.<\/p>\n
The two adults and four cygnets were first seen swanning around near a bowling green on Occupation Road, Corby, Northamptonshire, on Saturday. <\/p>\n
When charity volunteers arrived from Cambridgeshire the next day, they found the birds sunning themselves on Hazelwood Road.<\/p>\n
After being safely rounded up into big blue Ikea bags, they took a back-seat trip to a lake about a mile away. <\/p>\n
When they arrived, Graham Porter and his colleague, from The Waterfowl Sanctuary in Godmanchester, had to first work out where the family had come from.<\/p>\n
He said the boating lake – about two miles (3.2km) away – was ruled out when reports suggested there was not normally a family of swans based there.<\/p>\n
Instead, they opted for Pen Green lakes, about a mile (1.6km) away, which seemed their most likely home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A family of swans spotted sitting in a town centre resident’s garden “as if they were waiting for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":942563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,128,338],"class_list":["post-942562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=942562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/942563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}