A kayaker died of an accidental drowning when he was attacked by a Swan. Hit the jump for the full story.
Daily Mail – A man died after he fell off a kayak into a pond and a swan attacked him.
Anthony Hensley, 37, drowned on Saturday after the swan he was checking as part of his job at a condominium complex in Cook County, Illinois charged at him.
Authorities believe the man got too close to the swan or to its nesting area before he was attacked.
Mr Hensley was at the pond because he was hired by a company to try to keep geese away from the housing complex along Bay Colony Drive.
The procedure the man was supposed to use to keep the geese away was to bring a swan to the area to deter the other birds.
Mr Hensley had been checking on the swan while on a kayak when he fell over into the water.
He had attempted to resurface bringing his head above the water and moving toward the shoreline on a few occasions, witnesses told NBC Chicago.
But Mr Hensley ultimately remained under water and did not come back to the surface.
Emergency crews arrived at the scene and pulled the man from the water and had attempted to save him.
The attempts proved to be unsuccessful.
