An eccentric homeless bird lover known as the ‘Swan Whisperer’ who lives in a doorway on Billionaires' Row in London has been banned from Hyde Park after a fight over a swan.
Anders Fernstedt, 57, rammed a woman with his bicycle as she filmed him ‘stroking, cuddling and kissing’ the birds, then attacked a swan volunteer who tried to apprehend him.
The pair had warned the Swedish botanist and writer that his actions were spreading avian flu amid an outbreak, a court heard.
Fernstedt was found guilty of assault occasioning actual bodily harm by a jury at Southwark Crown Court and was yesterday given a 15-month community order.
Virginia Grey and Jon Ferguson had approached him on March 30, 2023, by the pond in Hyde Park after he had ignored multiple warnings and continued to touch the swans.
