It’s SPRING!
and I have proof. The gaggle have established two nests in which they have eggs – and a nasty attitude to anyone approaching. In fact you don’t even have to get that close. Stroppy my gander is his usual paranoid self, and has taken to lying in ambush around the back of the main water tank. I came in with an armload of firewood this morning at 7am and found as I turned to shut the door behind me that I’d been stealthily followed. Too bad, just as he dived to the attack I swung the door shut and he bounced backwards with a startled shriek as beak and door met. That’ll teach him.
It’s SPRING!
9 September 2015
and I have proof. The gaggle have established two nests in which they have eggs – and a nasty attitude to anyone approaching. In fact you don’t even have to get that close. Stroppy my gander is his usual paranoid self, and has taken to lying in ambush around the back of the main water tank. I came in with an armload of firewood this morning at 7am and found as I turned to shut the door behind me that I’d been stealthily followed. Too bad, just as he dived to the attack I swung the door shut and he bounced backwards with a startled shriek as beak and door met. That’ll teach him.