IT'S about two-feet tall, long slender neck, kinda orange and black bill... anything else? Well... it's a swan.

It was an unusual call for the great and the good from Newton Abbot Police Station this past weekend, as they attend reports of a swan blocking roads near the Drumbridges roundabout.

PC Miller attended and rescued the swan, who has been dubbed ‘James Pond’.

The swan tried to take off like a cargo plane narrowly missing a lorry but was taken out of harms way to Stover Country Park.