Bird plays chicken and narrowly avoids swan song

WHEN you’re a mute swan it’s hard to warn a motorist that they are about to instigate a reversal of fortune.

Bird plays chicken and narrowly avoids swan song

No amount of wing clapping or flipper stamping from our largest native bird was enough to prevent this happening yesterday at Bray harbour.

The voiceless bird almost broke into swan song, if you’ll pardon the seeming contradiction, when it found itself staring up the chassis of one reversing motorist.

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