{"id":512222,"date":"2026-04-04T08:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T08:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/512222\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T08:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T08:36:08","slug":"hatching-of-black-swan-cygnet-welcomed-in-dawlish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/512222\/","title":{"rendered":"Hatching of black swan cygnet welcomed in Dawlish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">People are being urged not to interfere with the swans and cygnets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Phillips, who has been the warden for more than 18 years, said: &#8220;It&#8217;s the same as any wild bird, you keep away. Just let nature take its course.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;Don&#8217;t feed them, that&#8217;s the worst thing you can do&#8230; just let mum and dad sort them out for their food.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Phillips said if people throw the cygnets food, it could attract gulls and ducks which would lead to the swan parents getting &#8220;frustrated and agitated&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Phillips said the black swans were what the town was &#8220;all about&#8221; and they were &#8220;what Dawlish is known for&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People are being urged not to interfere with the swans and cygnets. Phillips, who has been the warden&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-512222","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-unitedkingdom","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512222","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=512222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}