“Nature’s amazing, really,” she said. “They do surprise you.
“This kind of job, there’s quite a bit of sadness involved in it.
“But then when you see that, it just makes you feel good… especially because that animal wouldn’t have been there if they hadn’t been rescued.
“That’s what you’re doing it for, to help them carry on.”
Newell said the baby had arrived relatively late in the year, but as an only child would have the attention of both parents.
She added she knew they were the same pair she had rehabilitated because swans are very territorial and would not leave their home.