Hatchlings

[Blackbriar 8,569]

 

I was helping out with maintenance on a pheasant and duck shoot, when I came across some Canada goslings hatching.

At the risk of sounding soppy, it was quite a wonderful thing to witness naturally incubated eggs, hatching in the wild......

 

 

[Blackbriar 8,569]

 

I quickly took the pix, and left them in peace.......

[Qbgrey 4,214]

nice that,nature at its best.

[The one 8,551]

Very nice great at that age a bloody pest when there bigger

[cragman 2,812]

I'd have put a shotgun shell through them

[Blackbriar 8,569]

I'd have put a shotgun shell through them

You'd kill them just for the hell of it, then ?

[BGD 6,437]

Not soppy at all pal, the sort of scene anyone would feel privileged to come across.

 

Brilliant pics too

[dave88 1,565]

I'd have put a shotgun shell through them

Why?

[Greyman 30,263]

I'd have put a shotgun shell through them[/quote) feck me and they won't let me have a gun licence, what do you do for a holiday seal cub clubbing

[Jonjon79 13,358]

Not soppy at all pal, the sort of scene anyone would feel privileged to come across.

 

Brilliant pics too

'Privileged' is a good word

 

I'd love to see something like that happening.

[cragman 2,812]

 

I'd have put a shotgun shell through them

You'd kill them just for the hell of it, then ?

I control them throughout the year so why wait until they're causing more bother, spreading decease etc, just to give them a few more weeks life? So not for the hell of it. I've mink on my valley too, so I'll leave the young and let the parents run havoc while they look fluffy? Different reasons but control is needed

[Greyman 30,263]

 

 

I'd have put a shotgun shell through them

You'd kill them just for the hell of it, then ?

I control them throughout the year so why wait until they're causing more bother, spreading decease etc, just to give them a few more weeks life? So not for the hell of it. I've mink on my valley too, so I'll leave the young and let the parents run havoc while they look fluffy? Different reasons but control is needed

. We have probably all had to do some rather unpleasant things in our times, but choose not to shout about it on an open forum because know one really knows each other's circumstances, it's a little bit like telling someone there newborn is really ugly because in most cases they are, but we still say they look lovely, it's a nice photo of nature at its best and seeing 4" of the end of a 12 bore barrel in the picture would not improve it in anyway

[cragman 2,812]

No photos from me. I do the task and move on if I'm asked to. I took a photo of some Canada chicks the other day that came running up to me and my wife. Lovely things...and if they stay where they are, a park, then great. I was out this morning very early at the request of a landowner. I'd removed a clutch from her pond at the end of April, now there's a moorhen sitting on eggs and the grass is growing in the paddock for her horses. Geese are still turning up so I need to shift them or deter them. It's the old story, if I didn't do it, someone else would.