What is this goose thinking?

[Iain Utah]

Thanks for posting these pictures. It is quite a sight!!

 

[livininbrazil]

Thanks for posting these pictures. It is quite a sight!!

That´s ok, I found them amazing myself!

 

[livininbrazil]

You can see the little gozzie escaping. Look at the size of that swan! From what the photographer said, it doesn´t sound like the swan was trying to mate with it, serv. The swan picked the gosling up out of the water, dunked it over and over again, and also tried to fly off with it. It also got another gosling, did the same thing, but all ok in the end, and the rest of the goslings were hiding in the bank. Superb goose parents. Look at that goose parent in the pic...the posture of triumph!

 

[RURU]

You can see the little gozzie escaping. Look at the size of that swan! From what the photographer said, it doesn´t sound like the swan was trying to mate with it, serv. The swan picked the gosling up out of the water, dunked it over and over again, and also tried to fly off with it. It also got another gosling, did the same thing, but all ok in the end, and the rest of the goslings were hiding in the bank. Superb goose parents. Look at that goose parent in the pic...the posture of triumph!

Was that swan trying to drowned the goslings?

 

[livininbrazil]

Was that swan trying to drowned the goslings?

From the report, it would appear so.

 

[Speceider]

I'm wondering if that swan was kidnapping or was it going to hurt the poor lil gosling? Does anyone have a speculation?

Probably trying to kill it.. .intruded into it's territory and it is defending it's territory.. ..in Alaska on the Y-K Delta tundra swans cause significant mortality in white-front goslings if they see them.

Clint

 

[Iain Utah]

It absolutely looks to me like the swan is trying to kill the gosling.

 

[Miss Lydia]

It absolutely looks to me like the swan is trying to kill the gosling.

Me too, looks like it would be a snack for that huge Swan

 

[SummerChick]

Probably trying to kill it.. .intruded into it's territory and it is defending it's territory.. ..in Alaska on the Y-K Delta tundra swans cause significant mortality in white-front goslings if they see them.

Clint

Thanks Clint. I think some instinct is a but crazy. How could that lil gosling be a threat? Hooray for the parents!

 

[Iain Utah]

The swan has created an invisible property line and nothing can cross that line. It's a zero tolerance policy. It is obviously breeding season. Chances are that swan had a mate hatching babies nearby. I see many of my geese act like that during breeding season.