Hi #fediverse.

[pepijn@mastodon.online]

@SnyperWolf It's 2026, we really should try to not judge ducks by their cover.

[infoseepage@mastodon.social]

@Pepijn Can be so difficult to tell them apart.

[slothrop@chaos.social]

@Pepijn I bet it fled straight into the nearest high security data center

[snyperwolf@kind.social]

@Pepijn Fair enough

[src_esther@mastodon.online]

@SnyperWolf
It's a hare.

@Pepijn

[cptbutton@dice.camp]

@Pepijn

@muskrat_john has some advice on why you shouldn't....

[nickiquote@mstdn.social]

@Pepijn Ah, but have you ridden a white swan?

[alison@beige.party]

@Pepijn Pick up - no. Did pet a Canada goose while feeding them a couple summers back.

[skua@mastodon.social]

@Pepijn
Muscovy duck or Canadian goose in disguise.

[hyc@mastodon.social]

@Pepijn yeah, ducks have always bailed out if I tried to approach too

[snyperwolf@kind.social]

@src_esther @Pepijn it's a hair what?

[pjf@cloudisland.nz]

@Pepijn : No for duck, but yes for goose.

I was attacked by swans as a toddler.

[oldclumsy_nowmad@mastodon.social]

@Pepijn

I believe you may be what people call "an odd duck", Pepijn.

That is not a criticism. I like ducks (have picked many up, petted them, fed them, raised them from egg, studied them in the wild, etc.) I like most "odd" people, much more in fact than I like hidebound, sullen, militantly average people.

I'm an odd duck, myself.

Thanks for your entertaining posts.

[rachela@mastodon.online]

@Pepijn

I cry “fowl”! I have hugged and carried a chicken.
Do baby ducks, count? Then yes. Ducks!

[clickhere@mastodon.ie]

@Pepijn Hang on. Are you just approaching random stranger ducks? Ducks whomst are unknown to you?

Just planning on goin' around, pickin' up strangers??

Now, I'm no @fzer0, but I'm pretty sure that is not the way. Not the way, at all.

#ducks

[weezmgk@mastodon.social]

@Pepijn everybody DUCK

[standard_phil@infosec.exchange]

@Pepijn I've voted no, because I've only picked up a duckling, never a full grown duck.

Having met some adult ducks, I'm not sure it's as easy as the instructional video suggests.

[irishcath@mas.to]

@Pepijn Leave them alone

[drowningduck@mastodon.social]

@Pepijn I like ducks

[deepmud@mas.to]

@kobold the way I used to pick up geese was to grab them by the neck very close to their head, and just a second later I would put the other arm around their body so their wings are held close and cannot flap.

I should say that I've never picked up a goose who did not know me, and I have *never* tried this on a swan. Swans are *much* more powerful than geese and a lot meaner

Good luck! Send photos of bruises from wing blows!