{"id":779378,"date":"2026-09-22T23:24:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T23:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/779378\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T23:24:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T23:24:16","slug":"three-cygnets-rescued-after-causing-traffic-chaos-on-a31-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/779378\/","title":{"rendered":"Three cygnets rescued after causing traffic chaos on A31"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Moyles Court Wildlife Rescue Centre was called out early on Sunday morning after concerned members of the public and police reported the cygnets on the road.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Dorset Police contacted the rescue centre after a swan was spotted at Ashley Heath roundabout, near <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salisburyjournal.co.uk\/local-news\/ringwood-news\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ringwood<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Meanwhile, Hampshire police called the centre about two more swans on the A31 at Poulner Hill.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A spokesperson for Moyles Court Wildlife Rescue Centre said the team \u201cset off immediately\u201d to help.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Swans rescued from the A31 (Image: Moyles Court Wildlife Centre)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  They first attended the swan at Ashley Heath before travelling through the resulting traffic tailback to Poulner Hill.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Hampshire Police had already managed to catch one of the swans, leaving the rescue team to catch the remaining cygnet.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The three young swans were taken to the wildlife hospital, where staff confirmed they had escaped the incident without injury.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The spokesperson said: \u201cLuckily none of these three young swans (cygnets) were injured and they are now all safely here at our Wildlife Hospital.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cWe would like to take this opportunity to thank both Hampshire and Dorset Police for their continued support with numerous roadside wildlife rescues.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The rescue centre said the incident had caused \u201cearly Sunday morning traffic mayhem\u201d on the A31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Moyles Court Wildlife Rescue Centre was called out early on Sunday morning after concerned members of the public&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":779379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-779378","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\/779378","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=779378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}