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Thanks to a friendly neighbour who raised the alarm, our resident female swan was rescued yesterday by the heroic Harry and Dan. She had been missing for 48 hours and her mate was looking dejected, so we looked everywhere for her round our lake - no sign. Then out of the blue - Jo rang and said she was by a swan who looked like she was in trouble. I couldn’t believe our luck - it was almost definitely our girl, and she’d got herself stuck in a low and narrow part of the towns river, with no room to take off. So we hastily planned a rescue - called for help and along came Dan and Harry who brilliantly and very gently caught her - wrapped her in a towel (closest thing I had to hand!), and transported her back to our lake where she was reunited with her very relieved mate. It was a special moment to see them back together again, and watch them doing their little head bobs at each other. I went back up later to feed them - and she was ravenous, bless her. So her hubby watched over while she had a good feed, and then he had his dinner. He was unusually talkative to me - throwing his head back, honking and then bowing it and giving a deep purr at the end. It was either a thank you, of he was ticking me off for man-handling his Mrs! Either way it was adorable, and she is safely back where she belongs and hopefully a tad the wiser. And totally unharmed!