live speck comparison

[DComeaux]

Greeting a flock

[DComeaux]

There's a pair of specks hanging around some resident Canada's on Toledo Bend.

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[Rick]

And don'tcha know 200 coonass campers are conspiring against their lives.

[aunt betty]

Nothing is as exciting as fooling them specks into range and downing a pair.
Once you taste one it's even more frantic...kill em!

[Rick]

Specks seem to be very terriotorial and definitely a hierchy within family groups,I think the bee hive buzz raising in intensity and sharp ground clucks may be a defense mechanism---

In the "way back when..." it had to be recorded by Super 8 and transferred to VCR, a friend with permits for a flock of specks and other geese and ducks was kind enough to tape a view of his fenced pond so I could watch the birds' interaction, and the youtube video Dave referenced is a condensed version of what I got out of it. Lots of quiet three and four note gabble, a little two or three note yelping when apparently excited, and occasional outbursts of clucking and buzzing when someone apparently felt infringed upon, usually by a Canada. (Blues seemed nervous around and hurried through them without much fuss, but they didn't like at least one Canada and most off camera clucking was accompanied by a Canada' yelping.)