I had a call from my next door neighbour yesterday to say there was a cygnet in their back garden. I went and had a look and there was one of my cygnets strolling around in the back garden. The main pond is frozen solid at the moment and all the swans and cygnets had departed (temporarily I hope), this one had not gone far.

The problem was that the neighbours have a dog and several chickens so not ideal for them to have this trespasser. The next day I tried to walk it back to the reserve but she was not cooperating. Plan B was this:-

Fortunately she was very happy to be carried😀. It’s amazing how heavy a cygnet gets once you’ve carried it for a few hundred metres!

She seemed happy to see her pond (once I’d broken the ice and given her some food).