Hahahahha I have never heard of someone to be afraid of geese. I hope Percy helps you overcome your fear ! ;D
Hahahahha I have never heard of someone to be afraid of geese. I hope Percy helps you overcome your fear ! ;D
Congratulations on having a boy then?
Geese are nasty. Never get anywhere near the young of a Canada Goose, the adults will charge you, hissing and snapping. I've heard multiple accounts of them getting in altercations with foxes, raccoons, or other nest bandits with the end result being a dead fox or raccoon or whatever. Geese tend to win against most critters that aren't carrying a loaded gun.
Oh My Gawd! I love your description of geese!!!! Thats hysterical!
Ya. Percy is the green. I misspelled it before. Its Perseus. But yup. The little green bugger sounds like one of those devil creatures. XD
And Brian is so right. What happened to me was I was talking from my dorm to the little store to get some caffeine (was up studying for spring finals) and it was almost out of no where this HUGE thing came right at my head. Its wing span was wider then my arms stretched out and it was MAD. I turned sideways and he bit THREW my jeans and into the skin, even drew blood! I ran screaming as fast as I could to get away and it flew after me for a few yards until I got to the main road. I found out the next day I wasn't the only one to run into him, he'd terrorized the area all year. He was apparently protecting a nest of eggs that wouldn't hatch but since he didn't understand that they wouldn't hatch he was still going to protect it.
Since then I've been scared to DEATH of them. I use to love geese, thought they were beautiful and elegant. But not now. I stay as FAR away from them as possible.
At winery I know has a pond with signs posted "Beware. Nesting Swan" Swans are bigger and I've heard just as territorial if not more so than geese. Major injury could come from one of those beauties...sigh...why is beauty so d--n dangerous...but then I look at the fish and herps around me...then I feel better.
On a funnier note...one of my longtail lizards was sprawled out asleep on a branch. A cricket made its way next to her tail...quite peaceful then Whoomph! I saw the longtail lizard jumping for its life to the next branch looking back wondering what the heck happened...only to see a very satisfied American Green Tree frog licking its chops where the cricket was.![]()
There is a small zoo near me who has a group of migrating birds that dont leave because they've been hurt or there mates are hurt so they stay with them. One of them is this HUGE swan. My brother and I had taken his kids to the zoo one day a year or so ago and saw the swan and thought it was a statue until it moved its head to turn and look at us. It was laying down but its back probably came up to my knees and with its head stretched up high it was probably as tall as I am (almost 6 foot). Scared the **** out of me but the workers said that, while he use to be very nasty when his mate was alive and nesting, since her death hes actually very docile and sweet. He cant leave because he cant lift himself off the ground cuse hes so big. XD
Hahahaha! Thats funny as hell! Percy use to get in trouble with Hell when he would jump at a cricket near her. She'd turn around and smack him with her front feet like a mother punishing her child. XD I think Green's are little trouble makers in general. X3
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