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elsid

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Re: Duck Run
« Reply #15 on: May 29, 2016, 14:34:37 »
Excellent and original photos Elsa. Geese were used in ancient Rome as "alarm sounders".
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Re: Duck Run
« Reply #16 on: May 29, 2016, 16:04:49 »
Thank you Elsid  :)
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Re: Duck Run
« Reply #17 on: May 29, 2016, 17:10:36 »
Great story and pictures!
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Re: Duck Run
« Reply #18 on: May 29, 2016, 18:02:33 »
Thank you kindly Nikea
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Re: Duck Run
« Reply #19 on: May 29, 2016, 18:13:44 »
Wow - very nice shot, this is an impressive bio army. Your capture is transferring some eagerness, the ducks are really on it.

I know of a house where they keep 2 of these ducks to clean up a large vegetables garden.
These 2 seem constantly hungry, they also consume whatever snail is offered them over the fence.
Let's me thing about the guzzling force of this large herd.

Thanks for showing.
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Re: Duck Run
« Reply #20 on: May 29, 2016, 18:16:14 »
They do seem to be eating all day long!
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Re: Duck Run
« Reply #21 on: May 30, 2016, 03:52:16 »
Elsa:  Is this the vineyard?

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Re: Duck Run
« Reply #22 on: May 30, 2016, 06:56:48 »
Elsa, that third image could actually be very scary in a different setting.  Looks like an Army ready for an Attack .  The last image is cool  :) .  Thanks for sharing these.  Geese can be nasty things , a Stud Farm, near Henley on Thames, had large black goose that terrorized Janette :D .   It did not help that we had just had lunch at a country Pub that had several bottles of  Pouilly-Fumé at an exceptionally good price  :D

Akira, ducks are being used by some Indian rice growers also but they provide a secondary revenue stream.   Years ago I had a Christmas lunch of Curried Duck at a fashionable London restaurant.  Have not seen any local rice paddy ducks on a menu yet  :(
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Re: Duck Run
« Reply #23 on: May 30, 2016, 08:33:30 »
Fred - yes it is :)

Tom - I have heard about Geese being a tad difficult...
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