Hope floats. Swans’ nests do not—unless they get a little help from someone determined to make sure their precious cargo has a chance to hatch.
Rob Adamson, who lives and works at Jones Boatyard in St Ives, England has been a longtime spectator to the world’s “unluckiest swans” efforts to become parents.
For a decade, he looked on sadly as the poor birds’ eggs fell prey to poaching foxes and rising waters. This year as the Great Ouse began to flood, he knew he couldn’t stand by and let another clutch perish on his watch.
“You’re not supposed to interfere, but it had got to the point where they were all going to die,” Adamson told the BBC.
During the night, Adamson fashioned a makeshift raft and moored it with a line to the bank. It was well after dark when he gingerly lifted the nest and its occupants (eight eggs and one hissing mama) to safety, all under the wary eye of Papa swan. (GoodNewsNetwork.com)
Let’s hear it for our British friend, Rob Adamson!
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