Can Swans land on concrete ?.

rabdeniro

These two swans keep turning up at my local spoons, the thing is I watched them doddle up from the river, cross a dual carrage way and wander round the side of the shopping centre up to the pub doors.
I was thinkin do they need an area the size of a landing strip to take off and land ? if not why don't they just fly over ?, and another thing they're vicious ****, I tried to shoo them back towards the river and one of them had a go at me, if I had a shotgun I would have been eating it with my roasties at xmas.

MAXALLY

I have just checked on the web and it says that they can ......as long as they pay the bill.

.....and that is solid information.

VespaPX

Queen says yes...

Enut

Have you watched a swan land on water? They land by skidding to a stop on their webbed feet, very skilful and a joy to watch when they are adults however, they get it wrong a lot when they are learning, leading to some quite nasty crashes. If they land on concrete it is normally in error having mistaken the road for a river. In the above example it's much easier on the webbed feet to walk to the pub.

I have a swan joke (true story too).......

A chap (let's call him Sterling for want of a better name) was attending a Police Awareness Course having been caught doing 40 in a 30. Anyway the course tutor asked the attendees if they could name the animal that causes the most disruption on motorways. Cats, dogs, cows, sheep, horses, nope, none of those, apparently it's swans!

Anyway later in the same course the tutor asked what were some of the legitimate reasons you could stop on the hard shoulder of the motorway, Sterling duly shouted from the back of the room 'is it to feed the swans?'

Luckily the course tutor had a sense of humour and Sterling still passed the course.