is it just me?

[skyblue]

i was onr a sort of small wooden jetty with the dog.....well the black swans took offence to him being there and headed over all aggressive like,hissing and such......well they remind me of clingon birds of prey in a way:ninja

 

[Guyzerr]

They would have viewed him as a threat. A goose can hold their own fairly well in a fight. Them buggers bite hard. It feels like pliers grabbin' your ass.

 

[KimmyCharmeleon]

Yeah I think they're like that...there's a lagoon near where I live and they get pretty protective especially with their young ones around.

 

[edgray]

haha! reminds me of when I lived in Stoke on Trent, a friend of mine went into Hanley Park to shoot some of the swans there and I followed a couple of minutes later only to be confronted by my friend running towards me and the gate at breakneck speed with about 4 swans and dozens of ducks in hot pursuit. It was one of the funniest things I've ever seen.

 

[Peter Parka]

Haha! I always find black swans always sound such pussies compared to our larger, native mute swans. I remember I was down the river once and a cygnet had fallen into the flood ditch and got seperated from its mother. I rescued it and manage to locate its parent on a nearby lake. When she heard it, she came bombing across the lake and I got the fuck out of there pretty quick! Mute swans can break your arms with their wings, the're actually one of the heaviest flying birds in the world, I rescued another one once which was getting beaten up by a swan couple and had to carry it a way down the river to release it someone else, that thing must have weighed about the same as my greyhound!