{"id":817591,"date":"2026-10-29T13:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T13:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/817591\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T13:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T13:08:09","slug":"storm-stricken-swan-released-after-rescue-from-beach-rocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/817591\/","title":{"rendered":"Storm-stricken swan released after rescue from beach rocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Story said: &#8220;The poor swan had been blown into the rocks by the high winds that battered the south coast during Storm Austen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He&#8217;d somehow got trapped in a small gap in a cluster of large rocks and couldn&#8217;t get himself out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said that after wrapping the swan in a towel, a kind passer-by stopped to help her get out from the large rocks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After releasing the swan, she said: &#8220;It&#8217;s wonderful to see them healthy and back in the wild where they belong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Storm Austen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cj5yn2ww6pg9o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">caused disruption as it swept across Dorset, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Provisional Met Office data showed it brought a maximum gust of 69 knots (about 79mph) to the Isle of Wight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Story said: &#8220;The poor swan had been blown into the rocks by the high winds that battered the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":817592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-817591","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\/817591","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=817591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/817592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}