She said: “At this time of year they get pushed off by their parents as they’re ready to breed again – it happens everywhere. <\/p>\n
“But with Wistow it’s quite difficult if dad pushes them in a certain direction which ends up putting them towards the road.<\/p>\n
“It’s a country road, so people do go down there quite quickly and there’s a lot of ducks down there so unfortunately, we get quite a lot of casualties.<\/p>\n
“If you see them in the road, just call us and don’t put them back on the water because dad’s trying to bully them off.<\/p>\n
“They will spit at you and hiss, but if you’ve got a coat or something that you can wave at them, they will move the way that you need to get them to safety.”<\/p>\n
Anyone who spots a swan in need of rescue can contact Leicestershire Wildlife Hospital on 07951 285366.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She said: “At this time of year they get pushed off by their parents as they’re ready to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-445472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}