Goose attack

Yup.

Had a very similar experience with a Pheasant last year, although not quite as sustained as that attack.
 
It reminds us that wildlife has quite a demonstrative protective, feisty side. Fair play to it, I say...:D
 
Big red bag John :) ..betcha that's what really upset the gozzer. Waterfowl really like red buddy.................. that's why we have red drinker and feeder bases as bird keepers it helps get the kids going;). They will also peck at broken growing feathers..blood quills, again it's that red. I don't know how they see red .................. . But it really provokes a response even in a day old??????

Mate, have a dig at the subspecies of Canada goose. I spent a lot of my life thinking there was one, canada goose but it's not quite the case:cool:

Ahh mate I shouldn't say this but a whole host of waterfowl have beaten me up over the years, the shame , ha, I adore them for it, Some mallard are incredibly impressive, I've had them spinning around my head trying to hit me........hmm as are some domestic geese mind they plain hurt. Tis those leading wing edges and beaks you have to watch for .


Best policy is grab top of neck just below head pull past you and flatten with your body.................. swans to tiny dux it works for all:LOL: Then have a quiet chat.

John some of the birds I've been lucky enough to care for were quite scarce ,the easiest way to build numbers is to take eggs and incubate else where. Mum and dad then do what they do in nature and lay again. right or wrong it's a common practice

So yup I've taken a beating or too,by both mum and dad waterfowl,

Have a dig at those Canada's, there is a tiny one. :love:

Red bag to a goose, it's almost familiar:LOL:

cheers for posting .
 
Stuart Philpott said:
Big red bag John :) ..betcha that's what really upset the gozzer. Waterfowl really like red buddy.................. that's why we have red drinker and feeder bases as bird keepers it helps get the kids going;). They will also peck at broken growing feathers..blood quills, again it's that red. I don't know how they see red .................. . But it really provokes a response even in a day old??????

Mate, have a dig at the subspecies of Canada goose. I spent a lot of my life thinking there was one, canada goose but it's not quite the case:cool:

Ahh mate I shouldn't say this but a whole host of waterfowl have beaten me up over the years, the shame , ha, I adore them for it, Some mallard are incredibly impressive, I've had them spinning around my head trying to hit me........hmm as are some domestic geese mind they plain hurt. Tis those leading wing edges and beaks you have to watch for .


Best policy is grab top of neck just below head pull past you and flatten with your body.................. swans to tiny dux it works for all:LOL: Then have a quiet chat.

John some of the birds I've been lucky enough to care for were quite scarce ,the easiest way to build numbers is to take eggs and incubate else where. Mum and dad then do what they do in nature and lay again. right or wrong it's a common practice

So yup I've taken a beating or too,by both mum and dad waterfowl,

Have a dig at those Canada's, there is a tiny one. :love:

Red bag to a goose, it's almost familiar:LOL:

cheers for posting .
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A red bag ? I'd go with that. I can't imagine it had a nest at a car park..too busy.


I did a check, Stu, as you suggested and I see there are seven sub-species of Canada goose.

There are 7 recognized subspecies of Canada geese: Atlantic, Hudson Bay or Interior, Giant, Moffitt's or Great Basin, Lesser, Dusky and Vancouver. In general, the subspecies nesting farther north are smaller in size and darker in color to the west.

Re mallards attacking you. We have a large pond..19L X 10' W and mallards visit and they knock on the patio door glass when they want feeding Lol.Never been attacked by one. You musn't be talking to them properly :LOL:
 
JohnC6 said:
A red bag ? I'd go with that. I can't imagine it had a nest at a car park..too busy.


I did a check, Stu, as you suggested and I see there are seven sub-species of Canada goose.

There are 7 recognized subspecies of Canada geese: Atlantic, Hudson Bay or Interior, Giant, Moffitt's or Great Basin, Lesser, Dusky and Vancouver. In general, the subspecies nesting farther north are smaller in size and darker in color to the west.

Re mallards attacking you. We have a large pond..19L X 10' W and mallards visit and they knock on the patio door glass when they want feeding Lol.Never been attacked by one. You musn't be talking to them properly :LOL:
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One of my Runner Duck drakes (which technically are just Mallards I think) used to attack me regularly but only by pecking at my trousers as I walked about (they lived loose in the garden), enough to trip possibly but not bad -- they can’t fly of course.
 
Just remembered that one of the interesting things about my duck attacks was that I had 2 drakes & 3 ducks (hatched from 6 eggs so possibly imprinted on me) but it was the less dominant drake that attacked me never the other one. Seemed to be working like a pecking order where I was at the bottom :(. Don’t know if ducks do pecking orders, probably @Stuart Philpott will be along to enlighten us.

Sorry to go off topic on ducks when your thread was about geese John :cool:
 
sphexx said:
Just remembered that one of the interesting things about my duck attacks was that I had 2 drakes & 3 ducks (hatched from 6 eggs so possibly imprinted on me) but it was the less dominant drake that attacked me never the other one. Seemed to be working like a pecking order where I was at the bottom :(. Don’t know if ducks do pecking orders, probably @Stuart Philpott will be along to enlighten us.

Sorry to go off topic on ducks when your thread was about geese John :cool:
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Ducks,geese..all the same to me, Richard. On topic as far as I'm concerned. Your phrase made me laugh. Pecking order. Duck 1. to duck 2 who has just attacked you. "Oi..I get first peck at him..you're behind me..know your place." :LOL:
 
JohnC6 said:
Ducks,geese..all the same to me, Richard. On topic as far as I'm concerned. Your phrase made me laugh. Pecking order. Duck 1. to duck 2 who has just attacked you. "Oi..I get first peck at him..you're behind me..know your place." :LOL:
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Not my invention John, well known term originating with chickens I think, hence “peck” :). Works for all sorts of social animals, wolves, chimps etc.
 
sphexx said:
Not my invention John, well known term originating with chickens I think, hence “peck” :). Works for all sorts of social animals, wolves, chimps etc.
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Yes, well known but it was just funny to read it when we were talking about actual pecking..of you. :)
 
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Sorry slow coming back lads, my apologies, the world is screaming at me , I care not for it :banghead: Tis nice having work an all............... so many are struggling, tis heartbreaking:(, but yeah so little time the phone has nearly gone in the fire a few times now:exit:

Rich you made me giggle:ROFLMAO: I'm slightly unsure about the words stu and enlighten in the same sentence mate , slightly worrying that !! :LOL:

To your question well you told us you got clobbered by the second lesser dominant drake,so yes I concur dux have a pecking order. But Rich, surely all birdz have some form of "social hierarchy" /pecking order . In the wild as well as captivity. It's probably a bigger thing than " within" a species mate : We've all watched garden birds scrap a Robin beats up just about anyone, it's size.. ......... pecking order manifests its self in different ways.:)

Buddy a hunch................ you being attacked by a drake and the imprint possible association.......... I can't place being attacked by a domestic drake ( male bird) , that I didn't think was an imprinted bird. If I was out collecting eggs, it would always be girls................ ducks attacking me
.... to me your drake doesn't see you at the bottom ha ha me too, bro :LOL: he see's you as competition

Rich non imprints ( mallard and derivitives yes to runner) should ignore you if my hunch is right, but based on keeping mate not reading:)

John i was very lucky to work for two astounding ladies,one gave me the chance to work with domestic birds chucks dux turks gozzer the other to work with captive ,wild birds. Waterfowl

I got to chat to my friend that keeps wildlfowl last night she's so gifted. with birds and breeding their care.......... Those little Canadas were called Cackling Canada, what is incredible is the pair I knew all those years ago , that made such an impression on me are still alive................ they must be in their twenties

I know waterfowl can be long lived, what stopped me dead though was the pair of Avocets are just fine too. I didn't have a clue an Avocet could be so long lived buddy, So silly cool, they seem so fragile and delicate :)

I talk to most stuff beastie wise ok John,:LOL: it's just not cricket to take folks eggs I've always deserved a hiding, as it should be(y)

Birds nest in some silly places mate I can def see a carpark,

Have a lovely chrimbo both

stu
 
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