Re: Duck, duck - GOOSE

Can't wait to see it.  But all the animals do that to you dear.  Even
the peacocks who peck on the window when you're in the kitchen!


On 6/8/05, Jesse Bell <silverhawk@flash.net> wrote:
> Thanks Donna. This is a new digital camera...just learning how to use
> it. I'll go to Wal-Mart tomorrow and have it put on a disc and send it
> to you via the e-mail. My husband took a couple of pictures tonight with
> Peeper "helping" me in my garden. He just can't get over how attached
> this goose is to me. If I get too far away from him, he hops and skips a
> second the holds his wings straight out and starts RUNNING after me full
> speed...peeping at me the whole way. Hillarious.
> 
> 
> 
> Donna <gossiper@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Be glad to post it for you Jesse... took a quick look thru my email and
> can't find it if you sent it...
> 
> Donna
> 
> 
> >
> > Heck- send the picture to some one- we're dying to see it!
> >
> > Theresa
> >
> > Jesse Bell wrote:
> >
> > >Really??? I have been away from the computer a few days and haven't had
> > >time to do anymore research...my husband scoffs at the idea that it
> > >could be a swan. It's neck is not extraordinarily long, but it is long.
> > >I call him Peeper right now cause that's all he does. I have never seen
> > >anything like this. Last night I went to weed Bermuda grass out of my
> > >gardens and the goose is right there, helping me along. It grabs the
> > >runner of grass and pulls really hard, sometimes falling backwards. He
> > >stays with me wherever I go. In the mornings when I feed he follows me.
> > >I have a riding lawnmower with a trailer on the back full of different
> > >buckets of feed for the numerous DIFFERENT animals we have. He runs
> > >behind me, peeping. When he gets tired I hold him on my lap and take him
> > >back to his little swimming pool for a drink and a swim. I took a
> > >digital picture of him. What is the best way to get his photo on here so
> > >ya'll can see him? Send it to Donna????
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >Theresa wrote:
> > >Apparently for several swan species there are white and dark (really
> > >grey) juveniles. For example, in the Mute Swan the white juveniles are
> > >more common than the dark. The white versions have light pinkish orange
> > >beaks and feet, but the dark ones have dark grey/black beaks and feet.
> > >Soooooo- we still don't know what you've got! How big is it? Can it fly?
> > >
> > >Snow geese don't turn all white until they are adults according to what
> > >I found. They also have black on their wing tips at all ages.
> > >
> > >Here's a pretty decent swan site:
> > >http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/land/er/factsheets/birds/swan.htm
> > >
> > >Oh for heaven sake, Jesse take a picture of it to post- I'm dying of
> > >curiosity!
> > >
> > >Theresa
> > >
> > >Maria Olshin wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >>Does it look like this? From a research station in Canada, and
> > >>supposed to be cygnets, I guess of tundra swans.
> > >>
> > >>http://www.fw.umn.edu/CO-OP/Nestor1/2002%20WEB/CYGNETS3.jpg
> > >>Here's the main page, with a lot of interesting pix:
> > >>http://www.fw.umn.edu/CO-OP/Nestor1/Wildlife%20Pictures.htm
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>Not a swan because those babies have black beaks too. I'll have to look
> > >>>up the Snow Goose. It could be a common grey goose..they have orange
> > >>>beaks and feet. But there aren't any of those around here?????
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>james singer wrote:Snow goose or swan?
> 
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Pam Evans
Kemp TX
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