{"id":496062,"date":"2026-03-26T08:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T08:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/496062\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T08:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T08:22:08","slug":"swan-pair-covered-in-oil-return-cleaned-to-nottinghamshire-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/496062\/","title":{"rendered":"Swan pair covered in oil return cleaned to Nottinghamshire pond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nikki Farnsworth, chair of Radcliffe-in-Trent Parish Council&#8217;s biodiversity and environment working group, said many people had been devastated by the oil spill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is so lovely to have the swans back in their natural habitat,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There has always been a nesting pair of swans [here] and I suspect there will be a lot of people popping down to check on them and enjoy seeing them back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Residents involved in the rescue mission have also been making visits to check on their progress, with Twine spotting signs the pair could be preparing to breed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;What I think is the male has been gathering straw, grass and woody debris and looked like he&#8217;s trying to prepare a nest for him and his mate,&#8221; Farnsworth said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My hope now is for cygnets, definitely swan babies.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nikki Farnsworth, chair of Radcliffe-in-Trent Parish Council&#8217;s biodiversity and environment working group, said many people had been devastated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-496062","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\/496062","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=496062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}