The cygnets could be introduced to the burn within a couple of days of hatching, so Devey said Wild Intrigue had been working towards creating a safe environment for them.<\/p>\n
Temporary signs have been installed to ask people to give the swans extra space and keep dogs on leads.<\/p>\n
But Devey said the most important one was not feeding them at the nest as it could attract rats.<\/p>\n
“Rats are clever, they’ll take the food put down for the swans, but they might also take a cygnet at the same time,” she said.<\/p>\n
Ouseburn is an area with high footfall due to the pubs, restaurants and nearby farm, so Devey said it was necessary to help the family develop.<\/p>\n
“We love Ouseburn because you’ve got this mix of people enjoying a day out in the sun and then you’ve got this amazing wildlife everywhere as well,” she said.<\/p>\n
“But it is important that we find a balance or we’ll lose it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The cygnets could be introduced to the burn within a couple of days of hatching, so Devey said…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-614852","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\/614852","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=614852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}