Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Bill and Didier: This swan propensity towards aggressiveness bit wasn't known to me before my little incident. I had moccasins on when he came at me and a light kick to his chest sent him away. If I had known that he could have broken my arm and/or made me drop the camera, then I may have run away instead. ;-) We have a lot of them locally and they've never bothered me before. I got pretty close to this one at a different time of year with no trouble. http://www.hemenway.com/images/Drinking%20Swan.jpg Jim bill harting wrote: > My town (Plymouth MA) has swan (Warning: Aggressive Swan) signs around > the Eel River. I saw a swan attacking a parked car there one day, > hammering at the window. > > bill h Didier Ludwig wrote: > Swans can be quite aggressive. They can easily brake your arm with their > wings. When my dog was very young he's got heavily bashed by some swan > moms protecting their babies. He respected swans for the rest of his life. > And once I met a weasel in the forest. It was defending it's nest (with > cubs inside probably), hissing at us and it did not move one inch away > when I and my dog came closer. Really brave... I took the dog away > before he's got a scratched nose... > Didier