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Pink feet geese high in the sky announcing their arrival. Wood pigeons are throatilly humming their contented coo and Bob Robin looking scruffy after the moult,is cheekily helping himself to the dog's

I have been up every morning since I got here before dawn just to listen to hundreds heading south,and walked an estuary yesterday listening and watching fish jump and torpedo through shallows,I appre

Autumn's coming quick,rivers are packed with salmon and the geese are heading south.

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5 minutes ago, WataWalloper said:

I hate geese witb a passion, an there wee cousins the gobby Fcuking ducks, dickheads the lot of them haha

I used to keep geese. Grown men were terrified of them and wouldnt knock on the door. The milkman used to send a wee boy for the money lol

 Some said they can break your arm with their wings.

Can they f**k!

Their wing bones are full of air ffs!

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10 minutes ago, WataWalloper said:

I hate geese witb a passion, an there wee cousins the gobby Fcuking ducks, dickheads the lot of them haha

Geese are great.

 

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I’ve got a few ducks at the allotment, mainly Khaki Campbell;

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One day this call duck flew in and my old bitch Delta grabbed it and brought it to hand unharmed, so I clipped its wings and kept it;

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It turned out to be a great “clucker” and has hatched and raised loads of chicks, including hens, game fowl and ducks;

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Her wings have long since grown back, but she’s hanted now and flies off for a while but comes back at feeding time .

Cheers.

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3 minutes ago, jukel123 said:

'Hanted', I get what you mean from the context. Must be geordie dialect. 

Bit further south we dropped the H.......and said anted,homing pigeons were anted.

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9 minutes ago, mackem said:

Bit further south we dropped the H.......and said anted,homing pigeons were anted.

I put some wood pigeon eggs under some free flying fantail I had. They 'hanted', or 'anted' for months and months. Just flew with the rest. Tbh, I can't remember what became of  them. I also don't know what happened to the fantail eggs I put in the wood pigeons' nest.

I bet they were a surprise.😃

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Hanted means same thing in Glasgow with pouters once they are hanted to your loft they don’t usually leave, an if you wanna move lofts the easiest way to rehant them is to take a nest off them in new loft an let em out whislt sitting 

 

of topic but it’s not summat I usually hear in England 

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