Horrible fishing tackle injury

Early this morning one of our team, Philippa, spotted an unusual fishing tackle injury while she was on her rounds visiting different swans. Straight away Philippa sent details to our group chat and Josh and I made our way to site to see what could be done.
The swan was easy to catch, but the hook was barbed and embedded very deeply in its head. Normally with a barbed hook we can snip the barbed end off and remove the hook, but the end of this hook was deeply buried so no way it could be removed on site and the swan was clearly in a lot of pain. We wrapped and bagged the swan for safe transport and Josh drove it to the wildlife hospital to get the immediate surgical intervention needed. We always prefer to keep stress to the birds minimal so seek to detackle on site and release immediately, but this just wasn’t an option this time.
After dealing with the tackles swan, Philippa and I walked around the lake to do visual checks on another couple of swans and we’re both very happy to see one of our favourite cob swans has now found himself a wife! Stompy is a lovely boy and we are ever pleased to see him happy with a mate now.
Syd and Wilma were both good, Wilma was snoozing on her nest while Sydney was on the middle lake seemingly enjoying a spa day - he was splashing about and preening, relaxed and happy. It was good to see him so chilled as he’s been so stressed in recent weeks.
It was a lovely relaxing visit to the lake today actually, as I was able to sit with them and relax for quite a while, but the one remaining duckling did upset me though as mama has been gradually losing her babies since hatching them on Friday and I’m not hopeful this last one will make it either.
My final bird visit of the day was to check some geese and swans that are currently sharing what is basically just a large pond. There’s been some friction as the swans are nesting and won’t allow the geese onto the water, but sadly nothing really can be done until the goslings are big enough to either walk off with their parents (not sure where to), or eventually fly off. We will be keeping a check on this little pond as last year one of the cygnets hatched there developed angel wing, a genetic condition where the wing tip flips outward instead of folding inward as it should. This cygnet was caught and spend a short time in care with the wing wrapped to correct the angel wing, then it was returned home, with a completely normal wing.