Quote Originally Posted by rcollege View Post
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