Pennington Flash and the friendly birds

Pennington Flash is a nice country nature reserve. I have been to this place a few times now, and the first time I went, I saw a lot of wild birds on the huge lake, such as swans, Canadian geese, seagulls, and coots.

So the next time I visited, I brought them some food. A few people have told me in the past that swans are very aggressive and a bite from them will break a finger or arm, and that geese are even worse; in fact, geese have the nickname Cobra Chicken because they are so aggressive.

Well, I love animals, and animals always seem to be friendly with me, as you will see from the many videos I have filmed on my YouTube channel. So anyway, I took the birds some food and thought, I wonder if I could hand feed the swans and geese, would I end up with a broken hand?

The answer was no, in fact, they were very friendly. It was kind of funny, to be honest, as a number of people, from dog walkers to tourists at the lake, started to take photos of me because the swans and geese were so friendly with me and were both eating out of my hand.

The park is free to visit but there is a parking charge and at my last visit there was some constriction work going on as they were building a new café but that should be complete now.

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Hi @WattoPhotos ,

Oh…oh… you survived and you still have hands. Congratulations, you were really brave.

I think that there are also different characters in animals and some animals become aggressive when they have to protect their children.

Thanks for sharing the post and your experience.

Have a nice weekend

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Amazing shot @WattoPhotos keep it up thanks for sharing @WattoPhotos

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Thank you. I think you are right about different characters

I avoid getting close to animals when they have like young lambs, cows etc as they are very protective for example I came across a highland cow on her own a while back as I approached to see if she was ok I noticed a small baby cow in the ditch that had just been born so I immediately stopped and did not get any closer I will add the video later today.

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Thank you my friend.

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Wow. Nice to see you feeding them.

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Thankfully they were friendly with me.

Svaka ÄŤast kako su vam labudovi jeli iz ruku @WattoPhotos

Treba imati hrabrosti…

Ali labudovi nemaju zube, tako da niti ne mogu ugristi :sweat_smile:

Imaju dugi kljun pa vas mogu stisnuti eventualno njime.

:blush: :croatia:

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