{"id":591056,"date":"2026-05-18T18:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T18:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/591056\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T18:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T18:49:09","slug":"swans-happy-return-to-dorset-waters-after-ball-bearing-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/591056\/","title":{"rendered":"Swan&#8217;s &#8216;happy&#8217; return to Dorset waters after ball bearing attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Volunteers have captured the moment when swan that survived a ball bearing attack was released back into the water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The male bird, which had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c78k1e4jl5jo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a several millimetre wide ball bearing lodged next to its jugular vein<\/a>, was released at Christchurch Quay in Dorset on Sunday, a video by Hampshire-based Moyles Court wildlife rescue shows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The charity said it had undergone a complexed surgery and nursing care at its wildlife hospital but had now &#8220;fully recovered&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Carla Meeks from the rescue said the swan &#8220;was very happy to be back home&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Volunteers have captured the moment when swan that survived a ball bearing attack was released back into the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-591056","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\/591056","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=591056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}