{"id":640212,"date":"2025-12-18T12:37:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T12:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/640212\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T12:37:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T12:37:10","slug":"water-foul-swan-rescued-from-sewage-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/640212\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Water-foul&#8217; &#8211; Swan rescued from sewage works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A swan rescued from a sewage treatment works will be spending Christmas in an wildlife hospital as he is not healthy enough to be released into the wild.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The unfortunate animal spent four days in an overflow tank at the facility in Stoke Albany, Northamptonshire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Leicestershire Wildlife Hospital, which rescued him last week, said the water level was initially too low for the swan to be able to get out and it then became waterlogged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Animal care leader at the hospital, Harriet Childs, said the male swan had &#8220;not got any oomph in him&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A swan rescued from a sewage treatment works will be spending Christmas in an wildlife hospital as he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[70,16,15,1717],"class_list":{"0":"post-640212","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}