{"id":151594,"date":"2025-09-12T14:04:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T14:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/151594\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T14:04:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T14:04:10","slug":"effort-underway-in-boston-to-reunite-young-swan-separated-from-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/151594\/","title":{"rendered":"Effort underway in Boston to reunite young swan separated from family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  Boston residents call on park officials to intervene after baby swan separated from family <\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/a60b90b6f5b9cd45601eb8bb098d2f20.jpg\"   class=\"temp__img\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/boston\/video\/boston-residents-call-on-park-officials-to-intervene-after-baby-swan-separated-from-family\/\" class=\"embed__headline-link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>          Boston residents call on park officials to intervene after baby swan separated from family<\/p>\n<p>          02:22<\/p>\n<p>                      <\/a><\/p>\n<p>A mission is underway to reunite a family of swans in Jamaica Plain after a cygnet was separated from its family earlier this week while they were relocating from Ward&#8217;s Pond to Jamaica Pond.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to wildlife photographer Nate Dow, the family which consists of two adult swans and four cygnets, used a stairway near Ward&#8217;s Pond to leave two days ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All six- went all the way up the stairway and came up to the top where there&#8217;s an intersection,&#8221; Dow told WBZ. &#8220;Then, the little one got scared by that and just immediately went back down the hill and into the pond and started crying.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dow has been capturing photos of the birds for months. &#8220;I love swans, and I&#8217;ve been following this particular family basically all summer since the cygnets were hatched back in June,&#8221; he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Effort to reunite swans<\/p>\n<p>His focus has now shifted from taking the perfect photo, to reuniting the young swan that now drifts alone with its family.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/swans.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"Swan family Boston \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  A family of swans in Boston&#8217;s Jamaica Pond.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                CBS Boston<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s a defense thing with land predators and adults that can be very aggressive and scary,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s too young to be left on its own.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a perfect world, Dow says, &#8220;the adults would go back over to the other pond and remember that they left one over there.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He says the next best solution would be for Boston Park Rangers to safely capture the bird and move it to Jamaica Pond.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Boston Parks says they are closely monitoring the birds, and with guidance from New England Wildlife and daily check-ups, the lone bird is expected to be OK.<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/samantha-chaney\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Samantha  Chaney<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Samantha Chaney joined WBZ-TV in September 2024 as a multi-skilled journalist and reporter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boston residents call on park officials to intervene after baby swan separated from family Boston residents call on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[8731,93359,79,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-151594","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-boston","9":"tag-jamaica-plain-news","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}