POOR SWAN!

Two days ago I went to look at the ducks because we had seen our favourite for the first time in a few weeks, when I noticed that the swan was behaving strangely. It was sitting on the edge of the footpath, and not moving when people went past. So I went up to it and fed it a bit of bread, in tiny pieces because he doesn't like big ones and normally he would wet the food. And then I saw he had a very sore looking foot: about half looks missing and it was all swollen.
I rang up Wires, an animal rescue group, but they said it would probably fly away and they wouldn't even send anyone out unless I could assure them it couldn't fly. So I went back to the park to look and saw it hobbling using its wings to keep the weight off its sore foot and go up the grass into some shade. Then it was still too hot, so it hobbled back into the water. It was very sad and sore.
I gave it lots more bread which it gobbled up.
Yesterday it was still in the water, but swimming slowly.
Today it was swimming strongly and using its sore foot. But when it was standing on the bricks where the water lilies grow which is its favourite spot to clean itself and sleep in the day, it was holding up it's sore leg and trying to clean it. It will have to get a very strong other leg for a while while the sore foot recovers.

He had a run-in with an eel over some bread and the eel nearly flipped out of the water. The eel is about a metre long and it is very fat. I'm sure it is blind. It finds the bread by smell. The swan hates it and bites it. If the goose bites it the goose has to wash his beak out, but the swan doesn't. Must have different taste buds.

Ducky wagtail was looking for seed but we only brought him brown bread. He ate a bit then holds out for seed. He loves budgie mis and so does Goose. All the Moor hens love seed too and the other ducks. But only Goose andDucky wagtail will get out of the water for it and it sinks in the water, though if it is on a concrete path that goes through the water about 8 inches deep, then Goose and Wagtail will put their heads under the water to get it. I will have to buy seed tomorrow and the pigeons will be happy, they eat the left overs.