Swan causes rush-hour chaos after ‘mistaking motorway for river’
How about this for some charismatic mega fauna claiming its own right to roam?!!
Police were forced to chase a swan along a busy motorway as rush-hour traffic queued behind them after it apparently mistook the road for a river.
The bird blocked two lanes of the M27 in Hampshire as it swanned along the eastbound carriageway at about 8am yesterday.
Highways England said the swan – technically owned by Queen Elizabeth II – attempted to fly away but was rescued and “safely taken away”.