{"id":742779,"date":"2026-08-19T08:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T08:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/742779\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T08:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T08:56:11","slug":"ducks-recovering-from-muddy-pond-rescue-in-buckinghamshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/742779\/","title":{"rendered":"Ducks recovering from muddy pond rescue in Buckinghamshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two ducks have died and three ducks are being looked after by a bird rescue centre after being recovered from a dried-up pond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">MK Swan Rescue CIC was called to the pond near Little Brickhill, in Buckinghamshire, on Saturday evening, by two walkers who had discovered five ducks encased in the mud. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Although all birds were recovered alive at the scene, two have since died from complications sustained from being trapped in the pond. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Allie Humphries, the Founder and Director of MK Swan Rescue CIC, said when she found the ducks, they were &#8220;caked in mud&#8221; and looked like they had been &#8220;turned to stone&#8221;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two ducks have died and three ducks are being looked after by a bird rescue centre after being&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":742780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-742779","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\/742779","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=742779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/742780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}