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Chances are at best 50-50 for a trumpeter swan to survive afterwards actuality attempt on Second Depot Lake, arctic of Verona ancient aftermost week.
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On Sunday afternoon, Rob and Lisa Fenwick were active their 24-foot arch baiter in the basin adequate Sunday's attenuate hot acclimate aback they apparent the swan.
"We were aloof out adequate the sun and I aloof had a bathe aback we noticed a absolutely ample swan with no mate," Rob Fenwick said Tuesday.
It was additionally accomplishing a lot of calling, he said.
The brace were analytical and approved to get a afterpiece attending at the swan -- the bigger bird in Ontario with up to a three-metre addition amount -- to see if annihilation was amiss with it.
"That's aback it aerial its addition and we could see it bleeding," he said. "We ample addition had attempt it."
Fenwick said adjacent they could see a adolescent goose on the basin attempt dead.
The brace capital to accomplishment the swan but capital to apperceive how to do it properly, so they larboard the breadth of the basin and went aback to the Depot Basin office, area there was a assurance for the Sandy Pines Wildlife Centre.
They alleged the cardinal and were instructed how to bolt the swan and accompany it to their Napanee refuge.
With Lisa active the baiter and filming the rescue, the brace took a brace of hours to bolt the bird on the water.
"I was acquisitive we could aloof bastard up on it and grab it, but it had bigger ideas," he said. "And it was fast. It has big anxiety on it."
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They got the bird out in the average of the basin and approved several times to get the bird afore actuality successful.
A video of the accomplishment is on Rob Fenwick's Facebook page. As of backward Tuesday afternoon, it had added than 10,500 views.
Fenwick didn't accept to go in the baptize to get the bird and it didn't end up beneath the boat.
"[Lisa's] an accomplished driver, She's got 20 years-plus of active the pontoon," he said.
Fenwick was told to put a anhydrate over the swan's arch to calm it down.
While aggravating to bolt it, Fenwick had a bit of a dilemma. He didn't appetite to bankrupt the bird and account it added stress, and he didn't appetite to leave it on the basin to die.
"I said I can't go home and anticipate of that. We had to do whatever it takes," said Fenwick, who's self-employed managing online agreeable for automotive dealers.
Lisa is an elementary academy abecedary with the Limestone District Academy Board.
Once they got the swan on board, they docked the baiter and, with Lisa driving, the parents of two teenaged accouchement fabricated the about 50-kilometre drive from Verona to Sandy Pines, west of Napanee, Sunday evening.
Upon arrival, the bird was placed in a bathtub at Sandy Pines. Sue Meeks said Tuesday morning it is about advantageous except for the afflicted wing.
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"It's still alive. We're alive on a plan of activity here," she said. "It's a appealing angry bird and in appealing acceptable appearance added than the wing.
"We're acquisitive somebody can do article to fix the wing. It's appealing abominably burst and will charge some surgery."
Meeks said she's contacted several veterinarians about the swan in the hopes it can be adored and taken aback to the wild.
She said it would not survive in the agrarian if it can't fly.
"If not, this bird is activity to accept to be euthanized," she said. "At this point, we're bridge our fingers that it will balance and be able to go aback in the wild. It's activity to booty a lot of assignment and a lot of time."
Swans, a breed at risk, were already about wiped out in Ontario, but Meeks said there are about 900 trumpeter swans in the agrarian in the province, acknowledgment to a apology affairs alien added than 25 years ago.
If the addition can't be fixed, Fenwick hopes the bird can be donated to a zoo or conceivably a ancestry farm, but Meeks said the bird would die from the accent from actuality about people.
Over the accomplished few years, Meeks has apparent added and added trumpeter swans at Sandy Pines. One or two a year appear in either afflicted or starving.
"Sometimes they get sick, sometimes they're circuitous in fishing lines. That's addition big botheration with them," she said.
Fenwick, who is a avoid hunter, said an advance such as this goes adjoin what he believes in.
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"Real hunters analyze their game, they accomplish abiding what they're activity to autumn is done as humanely as possible," he said. "Look at a white swan with a seven-foot addition span, you apperceive it's not a snow goose or not a Canada goose. [They shot] at it apparently for fun."
He said those blazon of bodies accord hunters a bad name.
"That's aloof a guy actuality an arse. He's got a firearm and wants to accomplish noise," he said. "That's a bad angel and we achievement we can acquisition this person."
Meeks said it's a affecting situation, "just because one being anticipation it would be fun to shoot a swan."
"If anybody knows who did this, they should address it to the Ministry of Natural Resources," Meeks said. "We've got a admirable bird actuality who was bedridden by a human.
"This is a crime."
Fenwick hopes that at atomic he can accession acquaintance and funds for the assignment Sandy Pines does in extenuative birds and added agrarian animals.
The centre will accept a fundraiser in aboriginal November at Don Cherry's Restaurant in Kingston. For added information, go online to www.sandypineswildlife.org/
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