Posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on February 13, 2009 at 16:23:33 user ACB.
In Reply to: Re: Black swans in England? posted by Robin Marshall on February 13, 2009 at 12:37:58:
Helmingham Hall, in Suffolk, about twelve miles inland from Woodbridge, has a flock of them. They are of course kept pinioned, so they don't fly too far, but, thirty years or so ago, one scarpered as far as the Deben at Woodbridge and settled down with our numerous local mute swans. What was interesting to me was that they accepted her (she was a pen) as "one of us" and she lived to a ripe old age.
I expect the Norfolk black swan is a similar escapee.