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Greeting a flock

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

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

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!

johnc wrote: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.)