Fight or flight

Rubber Soul

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At my local pond, a lone swan landed three times and was chased off by the resident Cob three times.

Get off my pond
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Scared or what
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I'm out of here
Flight (2).jpg
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Wink still top swan on the pond.
Wink still top swan (2).jpg
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Your doing fine, Gary! (y)(y)(y)


Rubber Soul said:
was chased off by the resident Cob
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This is not what I observed! At this time of the year,
premature birds are honing their skill at intimidating,
seducing etc for the next winter's end when they will
have reached maturity.

The chased one in the #1, #2 and #3 is a female. I
cannot see clearly the gender of the "chaser" in #1
but #4 is most certainly a young male!
 
Kodiak Qc said:
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Your doing fine, Gary! (y)(y)(y)





This is not what I observed! At this time of the year,
premature birds are honing their skill at intimidating,
seducing etc for the next winter's end when they will
have reached maturity.

The chased one in the #1, #2 and #3 is a female. I
cannot see clearly the gender of the "chaser" in #1
but #4 is most certainly a young male!
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Thanks for viewing and commenting Daniel.

I am not sure what you mean with my statement " was chased off by the resident cob"
The pond has only one pair of swans and they have there for four years (all the year round).
The chasing swan is a cob.
# 4 is the resident cob, and has had 3 sets of cygnets in the last 3 years. So it must be at the very least must 6 years old.
 
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My dictionary translate cop as young horse!!!

How big is the pond?
 
Lovely sequence of pictures, noisy when they take off aren't they.

We had a resident pair on my local reserve, two years in a row the cob killed the cygnets :(
Last year they raised a brood and then earlier this year the female had an accident which resulted in her dying.
A new female has now moved in, there does seem to be a lot of flying from the pair but hopefully they
have now bonded
 
Great set Gary:clap::clap::clap::clap::clap: A funny story in the first two shots well captured(y)
 
:agree:

did it do a circuit of the pond to line up the attacker before it dropped its load? :oops: :$
 
Gremlin said:
Lovely sequence of pictures, noisy when they take off aren't they.

We had a resident pair on my local reserve, two years in a row the cob killed the cygnets :(
Last year they raised a brood and then earlier this year the female had an accident which resulted in her dying.
A new female has now moved in, there does seem to be a lot of flying from the pair but hopefully they
have now bonded
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Thanks for viewing and commenting.
Never knew that cobs killed their young.
 
Rubber Soul said:
Thanks for viewing and commenting.
Never knew that cobs killed their young.
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No one seems to know why he killed his own young, it is common for a new male to kill any chicks father by a previous one that it has replaced
 
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