Photo Gallery

The Photo Gallery is split into 2 sections - general photos suitable for everyone, followed by injury/medical photos where caution is advised. New photos will be added to the top of each list as we go along.

General Photographs - Suitable for Everyone

Swans rescued from the frozen Caspian Sea in Kazakhstan warming up by a radiator - 1

Swans rescued from the frozen Caspian Sea in Kazakhstan warming up by a radiator - 2

Dot and Nanette Newman making the draw for the raffle of Michael Strangs oil painting on behalf of The Swan Sanctuary

Dot receiving a cheque from Nanette Newman from the raffle of Michael Strangs oil painting on behalf of The Swan Sanctuary

"Trooper" cygnets at 2 months - first known offspring from a Trumpeter & Whooper swan mating pair

"Trooper" new-born cygnets 1 - first known offspring from a Trumpeter & Whooper swan mating pair

"Trooper" new-born cygnets 2 - first known offspring from a Trumpeter & Whooper swan mating pair

First cygnets of 2002 arrive at the sanctuary - 1

First cygnets of 2002 arrive at the sanctuary - 2

Rescued pen at the sanctuary with her first egg

Dot feeding swans in one of our outdoor pens

A black swan feeding at the sanctuary

A whooper swan in flight

Guy Fawkes the duckling

A visiting peacock

A black swan

A Bewicks cygnet

Bewicks swans on a lake

A family of whistling swans

Incoming aircraft - a mute swan preparing to land

Our operating theatre

Black parent with its cygnets - 1

Black parent with its cygnets - 2

A pair of trumpeter swans at the sanctuary

Royal Parks swan injury notice

Dot in her garden with Sarah Kennedy and swans

A tiny cygnet...

and another...

and another-whoops...

and another!

Mates visiting the sanctuarys main lake

Cleared for take off - 1

Cleared for take off - 2

Nesting black-necked swans

Pip the goat - a sanctuary resident

A new born duckling

A rescued bunny

Work placement students with a cygnet

A coscoroba swan

Capture in the water...

and release back into the wild - fancy it?

A nesting pair with eggs

A tiny trumpeter cygnet

Black-necked parent with its cygnets

Sarah helping a greylag gosling with its first swim

A whooper swan on water

Parent with new born cygnets

Parent with its cygnets riding on its back

Lovers who met at the sanctuary - released on Valentines Day - 1

Lovers who met at the sanctuary - released on Valentines Day - 2

Swan Lake - literally!

Dot receiving the British Empire Medal (BEM)

A pigeon release

Early days at the sanctuary

Single white female

Dot with Alastair Stewart

Injury/Medical Photographs - Caution Advised

Swan covered in green oil-based paint - the paint was thrown in its face by youths at Gunnersbury Park, Brentford - 1

Swan covered in green oil-based paint - the paint was thrown in its face by youths at Gunnersbury Park, Brentford - 2

Swan with badly swollen neck from swallowed fishing hook

Black cygnet strangled by fishing tackle

Swan entangled in fishing line

X-ray showing swallowed fishing hook

Swallowed fishing hook removal surgery

Great crested grebe during fish hook removal surgery

Great crested grebe after fish hook removal surgery

Dot with 4 cygnets shot locally on Green Lane

Dot with a swan shot in the eye - 1

Dot with a swan shot in the eye - 2

Cygnet with a head injury from a pylon collision awaiting surgery

Cygnet with a head injury from a pylon collision after surgery

Another pylon collision injury...

And another!

Swan with a shattered bill from train collision - CAUTION!

Swan with a barbed wire mouth injury - the barbed wire had been thrown in a lake

Swan with a barbed wire neck injury

Swan with an overhead cable injury to open mouth

Swan with cataracts as a result of being locked in a dark shed all the time

A typical dog attack injury - 1

A typical dog attack injury - 2

Swan with a broken wing - 1

Swan with a broken wing - 2

Wing amputation surgery

Swan with an injury caused by a broken Darvic ring

Swan with an overly tight BTO ring cutting off the blood circulation

Swan with chemical-burnt feet in surgery

Swan with chemical-burnt feet after surgery with bandages

A nest built from pollution on the Regents Canal in Hackney

Oiled swans in Galway, Ireland

Oiled swans in Gloucester