A local woman has been hailed a \u201chero\u201d for bravely venturing into Alexandra Lake on Wednesday night to save a trapped cygnet.<\/p>\n
A call was put out on the Ararat Residents Page at 4.45pm on Wednesday that a cygnet was trapped in fishing line near the island.<\/p>\n
Several residents made frantic calls to council, Wildlife Victoria and animal rescue organisations for help, but none was available.<\/p>\n
That prompted local Sarah Day and a friend to turn up at the lake with a kayak and venture into the lake in the dark to save the bird.<\/p>\n
Ms Day told the Advocate yesterday she couldn\u2019t sit back and do nothing.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was watching the post last night thinking I\u2019ve got kids home, I really can\u2019t go and do anything, but then council never showed up and Wildlife Victoria never showed up so I went to my mates place and grabbed his kayak and we went and helped,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe cygnet was caught around its wing with fishing line and when he was freed he went straight back to his family.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe help wildlife where we can but not normally swans, I\u2019m terrified of them,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cMum and day were pretty scary, they came over and were very unhappy but when (the cygnet) was free they were pretty chilled out,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was pretty dark,\u201d Ms Day said.<\/p>\n
Her brave actions received a wave of praise from local residents on the Ararat Residents Page.<\/p>\n
\u201cSarah you are amazing and have gone above and beyond. Thank you so much just doesn\u2019t seem enough,\u201d one person wrote.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou bloody legend,\u201d said another.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re a legend Sarah Day. Thank you from all of us daily garden walkers,\u201d another woman said.<\/p>\n
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A local woman has been hailed a \u201chero\u201d for bravely venturing into Alexandra Lake on Wednesday night to save a trapped cygnet.
\nA call was put out on the Ararat Residents Page at 4.45pm on Wednesday that a cygnet was trapped in fishing line near the island.
\nSeveral residents made frantic calls to council, Wildlife Victoria and animal rescue organisations for help, but none was available.
\nThat prompted local Sarah Day and a friend to turn up at the lake with a kayak and venture into the lake in the dark to save the bird.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[31],"class_list":["post-985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_4873-4-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1707&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdqUu4-fT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}