{"id":211027,"date":"2021-03-25T23:41:40","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T20:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/swan-harasses-uk-town-by-knocking-on-front-doors-for-hours\/"},"modified":"2021-03-25T23:41:40","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T20:41:40","slug":"swan-harasses-uk-town-by-knocking-on-front-doors-for-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/swan-harasses-uk-town-by-knocking-on-front-doors-for-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"#Swan harasses UK town by knocking on front doors for hours"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Swan harasses UK town by knocking on front doors for hours<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s his cygnet<\/em>-ture move.<\/p>\n

Residents of a British town say a say a swan named Cedric keeps knocking on their front doors for hours on end.<\/p>\n

Befuddled homeowners on one street in Northampton have no idea why \u2014 but say it\u2019s driving them slowly crazy.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe starts by rattling the letter box, then bashes the metal with its beak quite loudly,\u201d Stephen Legg, 70, groused of the bonkers bird.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe racket reverberates through the whole house,\u201d Legg told Metro.co.uk<\/a>. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t do any damage, but it\u2019s extremely irritating.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cedric lives with his mate on a nearby lake, and started persecuting the front doors about five years ago. <\/p>\n

It started out of the blue, as Cedric and the Mrs. had lived in the lake for at least two years prior without incident, Legg said.<\/p>\n

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Cedric the swan at a front door in Northampton, England.<\/figcaption>
Tristan Potter \/ SWNS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sometimes Cedric just knocks once or twice, then waddles off. Other times the bird will keep knock-knock-knocking for three hours.<\/p>\n

\u201cPretty funny,\u201d laughed neighbor Wendy Howard, 63, a retired nurse who recently recorded Cedric in the act. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut I\u2019m glad it isn\u2019t my house because it is very noisy,\u201d she noted. <\/p>\n

Legg has no clue what Cedric wants when he knocks. The swan shouldn\u2019t be hungry, since neighbors feed the birds on the lake all the time, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe does it every year [in] the summer, then doesn\u2019t bother for the rest of the year,\u201d Legg told Metro.co.uk. \u201cIt is a flipping nuisance.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Legg tried covering the door one year, but that impeded mail delivery. He also purchased a device that made \u201ca swan-repellent ultrasonic noise,\u201d but Cedric app<\/a>eared to be attracted, not repelled, by the sound.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe just nestled up to it, so it did no good at all, and even might\u2019ve encouraged him,\u201d Legg said. \u201cIt cost me thirty quid so it was a complete waste of money.\u201d<\/p>\n

If Cedric keeps up with his tiresome knock-knock jokes this summer, Legg said he\u2019ll have to cover the door again and leave a window open so mail deliveries can be flung inside.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#Swan harasses UK town by knocking on front doors for hours” It\u2019s his cygnet-ture move. Residents of a British town say a say a swan named Cedric keeps knocking on their front doors for hours on end. Befuddled homeowners on one street in Northampton have no idea why \u2014 but say it\u2019s driving them slowly…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":211028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/swan-door-wp-rail-thumb-nyp.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[99246,71594,90486,36368,72684,16493],"class_list":["post-211027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-3-25-21","tag-animal-attacks","tag-animals-acting-like-people","tag-birds","tag-cute-animals","tag-england"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}